Following a countdown from a bevy of schoolchildren at the front of the crowd, curtains were drawn to reveal Apex, one of the most complete and largest Stegosaurus fossils yet discovered.

A hundred and fifty million years ago, an aging Stegosaurus lay down for the last ... joints and the fused vertebrae of a mature adult. Apex went up for auction at Sotheby’s this past summer ...

NEW YORK − On a recent rainy Wednesday in Manhattan, Leonid Kogut sat and looked in awe at Apex, a stegosaurus that spans 27 feet. It was the perfect way to spend his afternoon. From small ...

NEW YORK — The American Museum of Natural History revealed the identity of its latest resident last week — “Apex,” one of the most complete specimens ever discovered of the plant-eating dinosaur ...

Some of 2024’s most interesting science, technology, and history stories could be found in international auctions. Regardless ...

The fossil is still being excavated at Bone Cabin Quarry in Wyoming. Courtesy Rally “As we’ve seen the privatization of some of these dinosaurs be way more publicized, people are realizing ...

Earlier this year, a fossilized stegosaurus skeleton (nicknamed “Apex” due to its rarity and unusual high quality) sold for a whopping $44.6 million to hedgefund billionaire Ken Griffin.

Griffin became the proud owner of Apex, an 11-foot-tall, 27-foot-long stegosaurus that previously resided somewhere in the ground near the town of Dinosaur, Colorado, for the past 150 million years.

Along with the record Griffin paid for the Stegosaurus known as "Apex" in 2024, a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton called "Stan" sold for $31.8 million in 2020. Increased demand from museums and ...

An apex predator competing with the tyrannosaurus ... Contrary to what its imposing back-plates might suggest, the stegosaurus was a herbivore, subsisting on a diet of mosses, ferns, horsetails ...