Nobody Spends $45 Million At A Stegosaurus Auction Without Trying To Create Their Own Jurassic Park
Alexi Rosenfeld. Getty Images.NBC -- A 150-million-year-old, nearly complete Stegosaurus skeleton sold for a record $44.6 million at auction Wednesday.
Sotheby’s, which handled the sale in New York, described the fossil as the “most complete” and “best preserved” Stegosaurus specimen of its size ever discovered. The huge skeleton, measuring 11 feet tall and 20 feet long, was nicknamed “Apex.”
The dinosaur remains were estimated to fetch up to $6 million, but the sale far exceeded those expectations. It set a world record price for a fossil at auction after a bidding war that lasted more than 15 minutes, according to Anna Tisi, a representative for Sotheby’s.
Nothing would be better than to have enough "fuck you" money that you can just spend $45 million on a bunch of dinosaur bones. I'm over here filtering price from lowest to highest for a weed whacker on Prime Day, and we've got guys out there able to go up from $6 million to $44.6 million for a stegosaurus.
And that would be the raddest thing ever if this dude bought this skeleton just for the sole purpose of having it at his house. Imagine inviting the boys over to watch the game and drink a few beers, and they walk into your living room to be greeted by the "most complete" and "best preserved" stegosaurus skeleton ever? That shit would rock so hard.
But I've watched enough Jurassic Park movies to know that's simply just not the case. What do they call it? Predictive programming? Where they need to tell you their plans before actually carrying them out. This right here is exactly that. We're about to get life imitating art. Because there's just no way you go to an auction and go $30 million over your intended budget just for a new kick ass center piece in your living room. If this is truly the "best preserved" stegosaurus skeleton out there, then it's only a matter of time before they use these bones to find a way to bring back dinosaurs. Shit, you already have people out there trying to bring back wooly mammoths.
And maybe the motive to bring back dinosaurs is pure and innocent at first. Sure, it might start with a friendly herbivore stegosaurus. Looks cool as heck and just eats shrubs. But we all know where this thing ends. All I'm saying is we're going to need Jeff Goldblum to be on standby for whenever this shit gets out of hand.