@sothebys: It's a world record for Gus! The T. Rex just became the most expensive dinosaur ever sold at auction. This morning at #SothebysNewYork, the room erupted into applause as seven online, phone and in-person bidders battled over 10 minutes for a final hammer price of over $50.1 million. Excavated in Harding County, South Dakota, the 67-million-year-old specimen took five years in the making and is officially the largest and most complete T. Rex sold. Gus exceeded the 2024 ‘Apex' Stegosaurus fossil sale, doubling its low estimate of $20-30 million.
If I won the lottery I wouldn’t tell anyone, but there would be signs.
2026-07-15 02:32:26
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Cricket :
You guys realize private collectors usually put these on display at museums, right? Because museums don’t always have the budget to buy complete to this extent… That’s why there are those plaques that say “courtesy of a private collector” all over the museums. They aren’t just keeping T. rex fossils in their foyer.
2026-07-14 23:10:14
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Rlove :
Dam and I’m here choosing from a cup of noodles or cereal 😳
2026-07-15 03:03:30
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Default ✨️ :
when you're rich and you dont want a porch goose, so you get a balcony dinosaur
2026-07-15 00:28:29
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Josh :
43 Million Dollars, and 1 Cent ✋🏻
2026-07-15 03:24:56
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B :
it’s a dragon not a dinosaur
2026-07-15 03:49:48
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none :
I don’t love the idea of owning a dinosaur skeleton.
2026-07-15 03:43:17
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VeliCutis💆🏻♀️AZ Esthetician :
Buyer of this is unknown but here’s what Ken Griffin did with Apex, the stegosaurus he bought for 44 million- he funded it to be installed in the American museum of natural history so it could be studied, then cast the skeleton so it could go on tour. The host museums then makes money from extra foot traffic to see the specimen. That money goes back into research programs for the museum.
2026-07-15 00:42:01
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Marcia Sieben25 :
Ross Geller was the bidder…😬
2026-07-15 03:48:26
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___jdiego__ :
If you got 43 million dollars to spend on a skeleton you need to rethink your life choices
2026-07-15 03:18:41
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Gabe :
Why doesn’t she wear her white glove? I have never seen her wear it
2026-07-15 03:47:23
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Siven Aru :
those people who dig this bones be like : 😳😳😳
2026-07-15 03:51:11
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🌷 :
Wow, should be in a museum.
2026-07-14 22:33:15
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user6842632958523 :
Not everything should be for sale
2026-07-14 22:09:15
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Jenz :
🌸Phyllis Kao Fan Club🌸
2026-07-14 22:49:06
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Bominicious :
If I had 50 mil I’d buy it too ✨
2026-07-14 22:48:01
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_ninagrfe :
i wish i could hear the other end of those phones
2026-07-15 02:23:36
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K9 Ca$h :
How do I become a phone bidder guy, spending other peoples millions? I feel like that would give me all the seratonin I crave without the financial losses I hate.
2026-07-15 01:54:04
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🪳 :
Just me debating on my honey mustard amount on DoorDash.
2026-07-15 02:13:46
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kbart1118 :
I can’t imagine having that level of wealth where I could spend millions on a dinosaur skeleton.
2026-07-15 01:49:58
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teemoteemo :
I mean if I found a T. rex on my property and could get $50M instead of donating it to a museum….. not that hard of a decision 😂😂😂
2026-07-15 00:57:06
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Cricket & Lucky :
To all hate commenters: Go back in their story about how this is financing an expansion for the archeological center that has found and preserved Sue and other T Rex that are in museums on display around the world. K?
2026-07-15 01:31:20
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saywhat99 :
While people die of starvation in the world 🙄🙄🙄
2026-07-15 00:48:29
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