Ken Griffin buys stegosaurus skeleton at auction

11 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · May 2

The Citadel founder paid nearly $45 million, setting a record for the most expensive fossil ever sold.
The purchase, made two years ago, highlights how dinosaur fossils are increasingly entering private collections rather than museums.
The report examines how fossils are found, priced and marketed, and how the private trade increasingly resembles art and antiquities markets.

When a T. rex sells for $30 million, who truly owns our planet's natural history?

With dinosaur skeletons selling for millions, is crucial scientific research going extinct?