{"id":24549,"date":"2024-12-07T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/45-million-record-breaking-stegosaurus-fossil-found-in-colorado-will-go-on-display-at-museum-in-new-york-city\/"},"modified":"2024-12-07T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T17:45:00","slug":"45-million-record-breaking-stegosaurus-fossil-found-in-colorado-will-go-on-display-at-museum-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/45-million-record-breaking-stegosaurus-fossil-found-in-colorado-will-go-on-display-at-museum-in\/","title":{"rendered":"$45 million record-breaking stegosaurus fossil found in Colorado will go on display at museum in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=15bf76a2-0e17-5dac-8e1f-3737de226ece&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Part of a stegosaurus skeleton is displayed at Sotheby&#039;s New York in New York, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. (AP Photo\/Pamela Smith)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Part of a stegosaurus skeleton is displayed at Sotheby&#039;s New York in New York, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. (AP Photo\/Pamela Smith)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">(AP Photo\/Pamela Smith)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The world\u2019s most expensive dinosaur fossil \u2013 found in 2022 in Colorado \u2013 is headed to a museum in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApex,\u201d a nearly complete set of stegosaurus fossils, sold for nearly $45 million at auction earlier this year in New York. A commercial paleontologist, Jason Cooper, found the fossil on his property in Moffat County in 2022 near the town of Dinosaur, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the buyer, Kenneth C. Griffin, is loaning the fossil to the American Museum of Natural History. The New York Times reports the loan is for 4 years. It will go on display on Sunday. Scientists say the fossil is one of the largest and most complete stegosauruses ever found \u2013 more than 254 bone elements of about 320 were discovered. It is more than 150 million years old and is 27 feet long.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin is a hedge fund manager and worth $47 billion, according to Forbes.<\/p>\n<p>A previous auction of a Tyrannosaurus rex was sold at auction in 2020 for nearly $32 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/\" id=\"link-eb2d2e47022c31bd2077b0e5c10473d5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em id=\"emphasis-9e2e562e4cb1bc992fc8577a27fa1895\">To read more stories from Colorado Public Radio, visit www.cpr.org<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>of a stegosaurus skeleton is displayed at Sotheby&#039;s New York in New York, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. (AP Photo\/Pamela Smith)(AP Photo\/Pamela Smith) The world\u2019s most expensive dinosaur fossil \u2013 found in 2022 in Colorado \u2013 is headed to a museum in New York City. \u201cApex,\u201d a nearly complete set of stegosaurus fossils, sold for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[120,28,145],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-24549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-colorado","tag-headlines","tag-science-general"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24549"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=24549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}