Historic Bidding Battle for Stegosaurus Fossil Sets New Auction Record at $44.6 Million | Sotheby’s

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  • Опубликовано: 4 янв 2025

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  • @tennissir1986
    @tennissir1986 5 месяцев назад +228

    This auctioneer is part psychologist part performer part salesman excelling at understanding the billionaire bidders. I’m amazed how she switches accents from British to New Yorker to Middle American depending on which bidder she is targeting.

  • @parryyotter
    @parryyotter 21 день назад +74

    Everyone coming to comment about it sitting “in someone’s house”, please do some research. It is sitting in the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

  • @NatahPerrin
    @NatahPerrin 4 месяца назад +244

    Im surprised this was sold at auction to the public rather than being kept in a museum since they said its likely the most complete stegosaurus ever!

    • @lukeskywalkerjediknight2.013
      @lukeskywalkerjediknight2.013 Месяц назад +27

      It’s the second most complete stegosaur, Sophie the Stegosaurus is slightly more complete. Although Sophie is a young adult or subadult, so Apex could give us valuable information about adult stegosaurs

    • @kevinpace7075
      @kevinpace7075 Месяц назад +53

      It will most likely be loaned or donated to a museum for political and tax purposes

    • @pyroglyphies
      @pyroglyphies Месяц назад +27

      This will most likely going to be loaned at the museum which is always the norm in the museum industry.

    • @sundawg911
      @sundawg911 23 дня назад +16

      @@pyroglyphies 100% a lot of items in museums are on loan by private owners.

    • @parryyotter
      @parryyotter 21 день назад +10

      It is in a museum. Museums cannot afford these things. They rely on donations and loans.

  • @marsha831
    @marsha831 5 месяцев назад +230

    Phyllis moved things along, her ever-present gavel a reminder to bid quickly. She's masterful - leaning out toward the field to pull bid after bid, then leaning back and reeling them in.

    • @amberkeller6757
      @amberkeller6757 5 месяцев назад +3

      Amazing she knows the bidders names as well

    • @susanhopkins481
      @susanhopkins481 5 месяцев назад +18

      @@amberkeller6757 The people on phones were representing the bidders, not the actual potential buyers themselves. My impression was that many of the reps on the phones were actually Sotheby's employees. She actually mentioned the titles of some of them. Only one was welcomed to Sotheby's, so perhaps a new employee. I imagine that there's a lot of responsibility (as well as liabiliity) to deal with phone buyers and that it would be Sotheby's top employees on the team. Thus the auctioneer would know their names.

  • @Slant88
    @Slant88 5 месяцев назад +180

    The auctioneer is superb fun to watch.

  • @mossgoblin322
    @mossgoblin322 5 месяцев назад +137

    oh PHYLLIS was at the rostrum for this auction?! let me tell you, when I saw the opening clip for this video I went HELL YEA! that late bid by Jodi's bidder was phenomenal, and what a bidding war between Jodi's bidder and Adam's bidder. Phyllis did an incredible job keeping the room on their toes, too! Impressive auction through and through.

    • @hannahjoyhopes
      @hannahjoyhopes 5 месяцев назад +5

      Yes!! I was so excited when I saw it was her. I love the way she commands the room and seems to so enjoy the gameplay of the auction

    • @gynandroidhead
      @gynandroidhead Месяц назад +2

      The bidding psychology was very entertaining, and Phyllis is an amazing suctioneer.

  • @nuthinnicehiphop
    @nuthinnicehiphop 5 месяцев назад +273

    I love the stegosaurus but it’s kind of sad that we live in a world with so much poverty and a dinosaur’s bones can be sold for 40 million dollars.

    • @mikecyanide6714
      @mikecyanide6714 5 месяцев назад +28

      Better get out there and fix the world

    • @nuthinnicehiphop
      @nuthinnicehiphop 5 месяцев назад

      @@mikecyanide6714 working on it

    • @Go-Getter
      @Go-Getter 5 месяцев назад +11

      There will always be poverty amongst us. So the best you can do, help those that God allows you to help and be content with that.

    • @jasonsseashellandfossilcol390
      @jasonsseashellandfossilcol390 5 месяцев назад +4

      Poverty is caused by the people in poverty, little sympathy here

    • @nuthinnicehiphop
      @nuthinnicehiphop 5 месяцев назад +18

      @@jasonsseashellandfossilcol390 think before you write. Do you see anyone looking for sympathy? Do you understand that someone spend 40 million dollars on a dinosaur? I ask you to think. Don’t just go off of your emotions. If you don’t understand it. That’s ok too.

  • @AleisterMeowley
    @AleisterMeowley 5 месяцев назад +38

    Those bones are 150 million years old. That’s before money, before the concept of money, before even the concept of concepts. Hopefully they’ll last long enough to see the same come true again

  • @mamatembo24
    @mamatembo24 5 месяцев назад +15

    She is sooooo calm.

  • @beefmaster7
    @beefmaster7 5 месяцев назад +26

    I bet spike’s mom is so proud of what her “little” one has achieved.

  • @tectorama
    @tectorama 20 часов назад +1

    I do wish they wouldn't put the final bid in the video title. We saw this fossil come to life in ...... "Night at the Museum"

  • @broadwaybaby348
    @broadwaybaby348 5 месяцев назад +76

    Oh, I forgot the auction was today.😮

    • @davidg8497
      @davidg8497 5 месяцев назад +5

      Arg and it was so cheap.. sadly I was on my yacht...

    • @mrartdeco
      @mrartdeco 5 месяцев назад

      @@davidg8497such a shame. let’s look for the current owner and bid it 3x the price. can you guys help find?

  • @joependleton6293
    @joependleton6293 5 месяцев назад +61

    Saw this in a story, so I've came to see the dinosaur 😊🦕

  • @taytrong
    @taytrong 5 месяцев назад +104

    i have some bones from a pork rib dinner while ago, starting bid at $8.

  • @NatahPerrin
    @NatahPerrin 4 месяца назад +9

    Its so funny to see the auctioneer posing and changing positions so many times like its a photoshoot!!!!

  • @gtv6chuck
    @gtv6chuck 5 месяцев назад +32

    I assume it was bought by a museum with very deep pockets. Like Sue the Tyrannosaurus was bought by the Field Museum in Chicago.

    • @OrontesRM
      @OrontesRM 5 месяцев назад +14

      no, unfortunately it has been bought by a private, an American guy. He said he might loan it to a museum.

    • @gtv6chuck
      @gtv6chuck 5 месяцев назад +3

      @@OrontesRM Actually, that's good. That means it wasn''t sold to someone in the Middle East or China, and I imagine he lives in an area where paleontologists would have good access to it. I imagine that it will end up in a museum sooner or later.

    • @devinp.2934
      @devinp.2934 5 месяцев назад +10

      @@OrontesRMKen Griffin, who has donated hundreds of millions to scientific institutions already, a notable example being The Field Museum in Chicago. I’m not happy with the $40million dollar price tag, but at least there’s a bit of silver lining and it won’t be lost to science entirely.

    • @junioradult6219
      @junioradult6219 5 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@devinp.2934 to be honest ive nvr been to a natural history museum that didnt have one or more already

    • @henrylivingstone2971
      @henrylivingstone2971 Месяц назад

      @@junioradult6219
      Those are casts

  • @DreadEnder
    @DreadEnder 5 месяцев назад +102

    Please be bought by a museum! Please be bought by a museum! Please be bought by a museum!
    Please be bought by a museum! Please be bought by a museum! Please be bought by a museum!

    • @kenfern2259
      @kenfern2259 5 месяцев назад +16

      @@DreadEnder it's brought by a billionaires but it's going to a USA museum

    • @DreadEnder
      @DreadEnder 5 месяцев назад

      @@kenfern2259 hopefully

    • @junioradult6219
      @junioradult6219 5 месяцев назад +3

      You can go to any natural history museum and see one to be honest

    • @kenfern2259
      @kenfern2259 5 месяцев назад

      @@junioradult6219 I saw this one in person it different from other stego I saw . The head shape has a bit of a curve also the beak is broken

    • @NaveenKumars-fy2wx
      @NaveenKumars-fy2wx 5 месяцев назад +1

      Ken Griffin bought the dinosaur

  • @slangoftheregions
    @slangoftheregions 10 дней назад +3

    This would've been cool to see in person

  • @99fruitbat94
    @99fruitbat94 5 месяцев назад +12

    Been fossil hunting for years here in the UK . Minor finds . I don't really treat myself to anything but for my sixtieth birthday I bought a mososaur tooth from a fossil shop . Massive treat . Honestly if I was a mul😢 billionaire loads of cash 🤔 Probably would have bought this steggie

  • @timeisahumanconstruct9251
    @timeisahumanconstruct9251 5 месяцев назад +19

    I like to watch wristwatch auctions. This is a different crowd. A much richer crowd.

  • @jonathansfv3109
    @jonathansfv3109 5 месяцев назад +80

    When you need to launder 40 million you buy a fucking dinosaur

    • @jonathansfv3109
      @jonathansfv3109 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@Planetgreen365 thank you

    • @Nagari2637
      @Nagari2637 5 месяцев назад +1

      Dawg the "living" dinosaur in Jurassic world fallen kingdom sold less than that😭😭

  • @josemarta8243
    @josemarta8243 5 месяцев назад +42

    This is real treasure worth every penny ... nothing man made can compare .. you can walk into a home with a 30 million dollar painting and youll just walk by not knowing ... walk into a mega mansion and ur face to face with this beast ... youll forget all about the mega mansion

    • @DreadEnder
      @DreadEnder 5 месяцев назад +5

      I dearly hope a museum bought it.

    • @angelalake200
      @angelalake200 5 месяцев назад

      i'm also impressed with the lego version 😊

    • @NaveenKumars-fy2wx
      @NaveenKumars-fy2wx 5 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@DreadEnderKen Griffin bought it

    • @4SlowFashion
      @4SlowFashion 28 дней назад

      i remember seeing a dinosaur in a mega mansion tour that was selling with the house

  • @palkokity8235
    @palkokity8235 5 месяцев назад +26

    That would look amazing in my front yard decorated with Christmas lights but I think that I would have stopped at 27 million. Guess I will wait for a T-Rex. Those are more abundant so I should be able to get a good deal.

    • @xavgmng
      @xavgmng 5 месяцев назад

      I would have stopped at $20 💀

  • @cambridgeratmom
    @cambridgeratmom 5 месяцев назад +5

    Love your style, Phyllis.

  • @sinjinadams2862
    @sinjinadams2862 5 месяцев назад +28

    I don't even really know what to say. When you have billions of dollars, money loses all meaning. For the person that bought this, 45 million dollars might as well be 44 cents. Money means absolutely nothing!

    • @jasonford6595
      @jasonford6595 6 дней назад +1

      Money is the reason this specimen can exist and be cared for properly to begin with. It's now being housed and cared for at the Museum of Natural History which requires millions to operate.

  • @stanleypatrick6498
    @stanleypatrick6498 5 месяцев назад +9

    Wait. Why does the heading say $44.6 million when the at the end of the auction it sold for $40 million?

    • @andyhorne9747
      @andyhorne9747 5 месяцев назад +10

      Commission

    • @Pax22100
      @Pax22100 5 месяцев назад +18

      The "buyer's premium" gets added after the final bid and is retained by the auction house, not the seller. It's been that way since the 1970s.

    • @stanleypatrick6498
      @stanleypatrick6498 5 месяцев назад

      @@andyhorne9747 Thanks.

    • @stanleypatrick6498
      @stanleypatrick6498 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@Pax22100 Thanks.

    • @gynandroidhead
      @gynandroidhead Месяц назад +2

      It's a buyer's premium, colloquially referred to as "the juice" is added to the hammer price, which in this auction was $40M.

  • @OriginalJetForMe
    @OriginalJetForMe 5 месяцев назад +7

    I am in love with Phyllis.

  • @tecurran1
    @tecurran1 Месяц назад +2

    Sad that the only bidding came via phones with the auctioneer leaning in that direction, only glancing at the room. It looked like a call center. The room meanwhile appeared to be filled with other Sotheby's staff. Where is the drama?

  • @patrickfielder6069
    @patrickfielder6069 29 дней назад +2

    Really annoyed this appeared on my home page. Just rub my nose in it that my bid of $12.50 was outbid.

  • @Skyebooo
    @Skyebooo 5 месяцев назад +5

    I need to watch outdoor survival videos to bring back some balance now. Indoor plumbing makes me feel rich.

  • @jamo3976
    @jamo3976 5 месяцев назад +15

    this is such a weird video haha but strangely absorbing

  • @thanksforstoppingby
    @thanksforstoppingby 5 месяцев назад +31

    Oh this? It's my stegasuarus! I call her Spiney.

  • @SisterUnity
    @SisterUnity 5 дней назад

    Must remember to pick one of those up for the living room.

  • @angelalake200
    @angelalake200 5 месяцев назад +7

    what a strange auction.

  • @lancejarell3926
    @lancejarell3926 15 дней назад

    It belongs in a museum

    • @errgo2713
      @errgo2713 7 дней назад +1

      It is in a museum

  • @4SlowFashion
    @4SlowFashion 28 дней назад +3

    for only $0.27 per year it has been extinct

  • @SkyeRangerNick
    @SkyeRangerNick 5 месяцев назад +15

    That audience looks mighty young to be witnessing something being sold that is so old. I am curious about some of the other items sold. It is nice to see the regard for the Stegosaurus. It is a bit pricey simply to assemble and bring to auction such an offering.

    • @bngr_bngr
      @bngr_bngr 5 месяцев назад +10

      Many are bidding for someone else. They are buyer representatives. Much like the people on the phones.

    • @SusanHarris-sk2ib
      @SusanHarris-sk2ib 5 месяцев назад +8

      I think a lot of the "mighty young" are interns. Also, this is not a case of simple assembly and bringing to auction. This guy owns the land he dug it out of bit by bit over a long time and then cleaned it which also takes a painstakingly long time, put all the pieces together, and then brought it to auction. He is a commercial paleontologist and puts in a lot of know how and work to arrive at what you saw today.

    • @artpro5930
      @artpro5930 5 месяцев назад +6

      This was a 10 AM sale with mostly modestly priced lots, like a Purpurite, lot 51, that went for $1,680. These are people off the street who want to watch an auction. Sotheby's lets anyone in for sales like this.
      There just happened to be a dinosaur skeleton with an estimate of $4-6m that sold for $44m(!!!!) amongst all the low-value stuff.
      @bngr_bngr No, these are just random people off the street.

    • @artpro5930
      @artpro5930 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@SusanHarris-sk2ib These are people off the street. See my response to the original post as to why.
      You can see many interns watching the sale in the pan across the back of the room at 15:17. One other tell is the audience members are dressed too casually and the interns have a "smarter" dress code.

    • @SusanHarris-sk2ib
      @SusanHarris-sk2ib 5 месяцев назад

      @@artpro5930 My response was to SkyRangerNick - not to you as far as I remember - when he spoke of mighty young people and a bit pricey for simple assembly and putting up for auction.

  • @Hans5958
    @Hans5958 5 месяцев назад +5

    Bring back the streams man

  • @mikejames4540
    @mikejames4540 5 месяцев назад +11

    The commission will keep Sotheby’s going for a while. I bet staff got a treat after this one…

    • @junioradult6219
      @junioradult6219 5 месяцев назад +1

      Compared to the 100s of millions priced items? This is small potatoes for them

    • @parryyotter
      @parryyotter 21 день назад

      This is nothing 😂

  • @ParanormalShortStory
    @ParanormalShortStory 5 месяцев назад +3

    The names she's calling out: Simon, Emily, Cassandra, etc. - are these the name of the bidders who are calling in, or the names of the Sothebys employees who are holding the phones?

    • @devinp.2934
      @devinp.2934 5 месяцев назад +11

      The agents representing the bidders. Jodi represented Ken Griffin who purchased Apex (The Stegosaurus skeleton).

    • @halaji
      @halaji 5 месяцев назад

      She noted at least one by title as an employee of Sotheby's. Perhaps many of them are the same.

    • @yippeeioh
      @yippeeioh 5 месяцев назад

      Adam and Jodi work for Sotheby's. Not sure on the others.

    • @gynandroidhead
      @gynandroidhead Месяц назад

      Cassandra is a very high-ranking employee. You don't allow newbies to handle this kind of action.

  • @amihan99
    @amihan99 25 дней назад +1

    Maybe the real treasures are the friends we met along this auction

  • @ultimobile
    @ultimobile 5 месяцев назад +3

    most of those bidders just phoned it in

  • @ronaldschutt2877
    @ronaldschutt2877 5 месяцев назад +2

    It`s so sick, what will be the price for the next T- rex? There are thousands of tons of fossil bones waiting to be unearthed and studied by paleontologists in museums. And skeletons also, it`s just a matter how complete and wich time they will be be found. Da Vinci painted only one portrait of "Mona Lisa"... but millions of T- rex individuals were walking on this planet in the cretaceous. People are obviously getting crazy at the moment... 🤔

  • @jmv99id
    @jmv99id 5 месяцев назад +2

    Amazing the uncomfortable chairs they make the bidders sit in while bidding millions! 🙂

  • @DeathDad
    @DeathDad 5 месяцев назад +2

    And no one in the audience actually bidding on things anymore…
    If Sotheby’s ever makes an AI app, it should be called Phyllis !

  • @Scorp1on-w8e
    @Scorp1on-w8e 5 месяцев назад +35

    It should be rightfully sent to scientists or a museum not to some rich person who's using their daddy's money.

    • @dasistpfui
      @dasistpfui 5 месяцев назад +4

      44Mio is a bit much for daddys pocket money 😅 for every rich kid. Maybe it is a private Museum now, we dont know. When the last owner can work with this money to bring up more Dino bones, then it is a good thing.

    • @gabrielalamberti5860
      @gabrielalamberti5860 5 месяцев назад

      I read it will go to US museum

    • @randomuser12237
      @randomuser12237 5 месяцев назад +3

      At least he will donate to museum as far I heard. Fuck laws for not protecting fossils.

    • @cointomato9768
      @cointomato9768 Месяц назад

      I mean finders keepers, whoever discovered it should probably have the right to sell it to whoever they want.

    • @George-nd7ot
      @George-nd7ot Месяц назад

      Lol Ken Griffin bought it

  • @lowandslowcrawlers
    @lowandslowcrawlers 5 месяцев назад +1

    Who won the auction

  • @amberkeller6757
    @amberkeller6757 5 месяцев назад +2

    Why are they all on the phone?

    • @sonickay
      @sonickay 5 месяцев назад +3

      They're talking to the buyers. The people in the room aren't the buyers, they're just representing the buyers.

  • @jmac6743
    @jmac6743 Месяц назад +1

    I think a triceratops skull would be awesome. That was my favorite dinosaur as a kid. It would look incredible mounted on a wall or display. The entire beast would also be incredible.
    I guess if you had the room, a full brontosaurus would be a conversation starter. Lol

  • @randyward2766
    @randyward2766 Месяц назад +1

    I like how she pronounces Cassandra.

  • @filisildaanino5725
    @filisildaanino5725 Месяц назад

    I FINALLY GOT THIS COMPLETE STEGOSAURUS 🙏❤️👍

  • @Known-unknowns
    @Known-unknowns 5 месяцев назад +6

    The lady selling is deliberately leaning forward and back to increase the sense of excitement and interest. It’s rehearsed. Pumping the money up.

    • @jimmy-ep2vi
      @jimmy-ep2vi 5 месяцев назад +4

      You think the lady body language is really influencing the decision maker/accountant on the other side of the phone line?!?!?!?!

    • @marccardiff
      @marccardiff 5 месяцев назад +2

      Yeah, everybody was pretty bored before she leaned in.

    • @hannahjoyhopes
      @hannahjoyhopes 5 месяцев назад +5

      Of course she is! That's her job, and the whole point of the auction. Auctions are basically gambling, and we don't hold it against casinos for making their gameplay interesting. The results aren't rehearsed, but her manner is practiced for sure! To auctioneer at sothebys you've got to be absolutely top of the game

  • @RickMcMasterakaDrKold
    @RickMcMasterakaDrKold 5 месяцев назад +8

    Just cannot stop thinking of how man hungry kids this would have fed or how many homeless vets could be housed with this money instead it fed the ego of a hedge fund manager.

    • @MiscellaneousMadame
      @MiscellaneousMadame 5 месяцев назад

      Couldn't agree more. Just illustrates how out of whack our economy is.

  • @dreamterry
    @dreamterry Месяц назад +6

    She's like an exotic dancer ... amazing physicality and charm. Brava!

  • @ostravia
    @ostravia 4 месяца назад +2

    It belongs in a museum. Not to the Beseech of a fool.

  • @chefjameso
    @chefjameso Месяц назад +1

    why do they bother to all those people when all the winners are bidding on the phone
    lol

    • @b3z3jm3nny
      @b3z3jm3nny 27 дней назад

      They’re there for other items, this is just one clip

  • @Avo4ka
    @Avo4ka 5 месяцев назад +1

    How she knows their names?

  • @robinminnaard7365
    @robinminnaard7365 5 месяцев назад

    How does it work because she hammered it om 40. Is the 4.6 a commission for the auction house?

  • @guldenaydin9918
    @guldenaydin9918 5 месяцев назад

    “Passion”..
    Thank You.🍃

  • @willderousse
    @willderousse 5 месяцев назад

    Please tell me a museum was the winning bidder

  • @AlphaVisionPro
    @AlphaVisionPro 5 месяцев назад +5

    I bought it 🦖

  • @paulmatulavich7321
    @paulmatulavich7321 5 месяцев назад

    Should've had a picture-in-picture of the face of the seller as the millions got higher and higher.

  • @MiscellaneousMadame
    @MiscellaneousMadame 5 месяцев назад

    $44.6 million for a bunch of bones.....to have that kind of wealth and to spend it on this versus how this money could have been spent in a more impactful way. Hopefully, this proud new owner of Apex will loan it out to a museum for a very long time. Curious, who gets a chunk of that 44.5? Sotheby's certainly will get a %'age, what about whoever found the skeletal remains, what about the representatives on the phone bidding on behalf of the various bidders?

  • @ameliaf784
    @ameliaf784 5 месяцев назад +6

    I heard this was a good auctioneer. She got nothing on the ones in rural Wisconsin.

    • @--cs3
      @--cs3 5 месяцев назад +1

      She ain't got nuthin' on Jim Dickens from Letterkenny, Ontario.

    • @longsleevethong1457
      @longsleevethong1457 5 месяцев назад

      Yeah shes trying way too hard to be sensual or whatever that is….shes trying to make the auction about her

  • @DreadEnder
    @DreadEnder 5 месяцев назад +1

    Damn a new record!

  • @casmirawildeman4333
    @casmirawildeman4333 Месяц назад

    The title and description says sold for $44.6 million but the buyer gets it for $40 million at the end and everyone claps?

    • @gynandroidhead
      @gynandroidhead Месяц назад

      A buyer's premium is added to the hammer price (in this case $40M).

  • @christiansolis9620
    @christiansolis9620 5 месяцев назад

    Buyer's premium is 16%, that brings it up to 46.

  • @ALTAJR-07
    @ALTAJR-07 19 дней назад +1

    Well, a Chinese porcelain Qing Dynasty vase sold for $85.9 MILLION to an anonymous Chinese Billionaire. So this Price actually is Mid.

  • @NatahPerrin
    @NatahPerrin 4 месяца назад

    Damn, that room looks depressing

  • @nawshlovestodance
    @nawshlovestodance 4 месяца назад

    I hope my assistant is writing this all down I just wanna play cards

  • @js27-a5t
    @js27-a5t 5 месяцев назад +1

    Why do they all use landlines?

    • @justinedemetrick9508
      @justinedemetrick9508 5 месяцев назад +11

      because you never have to worry about a dropped call or crappy reception. I actually miss landlines - sound and volume was crystal clear, never garbled and no dropped calls.

  • @ColinSushiboy-lz4rg
    @ColinSushiboy-lz4rg Месяц назад

    Wonder what my bones are worth in a 100 mil years? 😂

  • @LecksMoney
    @LecksMoney 5 месяцев назад

    whats with the phones - why dont people that have the money just go to buy ?

  • @NaveenKumars-fy2wx
    @NaveenKumars-fy2wx 5 месяцев назад +2

    Ken Griffin is the buyer

  • @benderbendingrofriguez3300
    @benderbendingrofriguez3300 5 месяцев назад +71

    "They are just numbers at this point" such a capitalist joke.

    • @bzamski17
      @bzamski17 5 месяцев назад +2

      Jealous much

    • @bngr_bngr
      @bngr_bngr 5 месяцев назад +5

      That’s how an auction works.

    • @kenfern2259
      @kenfern2259 5 месяцев назад +10

      ​@@bzamski17 it's not even about jealousy It's more that fact these are priceless specimen and consider the fact that stegosaurs are rare among Morrison formation and the fact if it's gets lock up in someone mansion it's literally lost and it also contain arthritis sick of disease plus skin impression .

    • @tsfoxe
      @tsfoxe 5 месяцев назад +6

      @@kenfern2259 Stay tuned for the fossil to be donated to a Natural History Museum as is nearly always the case.

    • @kenfern2259
      @kenfern2259 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@tsfoxe hopefully there are some that aren't as lucky . One allosaurus is chilling in the mansion 60 percent complete . Im thinking it's possible that the museum that got stan brought it

  • @MilipTichaelPhomas
    @MilipTichaelPhomas 5 месяцев назад +2

    i can't afford to run my a/c, mfs out here buying dinosaurs!?‽

  • @highcry
    @highcry 5 месяцев назад

    If it sold for 40, what is it actually worth 😳

  • @nawshlovestodance
    @nawshlovestodance 4 месяца назад

    Wheres adele she will get a custom piece but I thought she would bid

  • @randomuser12237
    @randomuser12237 5 месяцев назад +3

    Fossils shouldn't have crazy prices like this and all important speciments shouldn't be able to sell at all

  • @vurujak
    @vurujak 5 месяцев назад

    Dang it, only if it were 44.5 million it would be mine now 😢😢😢😢 😂

  • @mc-zp3ii
    @mc-zp3ii 5 месяцев назад +7

    And to never been seen again. Housed in a private collection. What a tragedy.

    • @halaji
      @halaji 5 месяцев назад +2

      For one or two generations, maybe. But it will certainly end up in a museum at some point. It's been underground for 65 million years; what's the rush?

    • @olivareyesvalery7473
      @olivareyesvalery7473 5 месяцев назад

      It will also help to fund future excavations, for more species to be found. It is probably why the paleontologists decided to sell it, to fund future excavations

    • @18greens18fairways
      @18greens18fairways 5 месяцев назад +1

      Many times the winning bidder will lend it to a museum. Although this one I'm not too sure what the owner's intentions are.

    • @parryyotter
      @parryyotter 21 день назад +1

      Y’all need to realize that a lot of these things are bought and then loaned or donated. It’s really frustrating to read these uneducated comments.
      It’s literally in a museum right now in New York.

  • @King_Kong_of_QiGong
    @King_Kong_of_QiGong 5 месяцев назад +3

    apex herbivore?

    • @stanleypatrick6498
      @stanleypatrick6498 5 месяцев назад +1

      Them plants were quakin in their boots when he rolled up in the hood.

  • @jasonford6595
    @jasonford6595 6 дней назад

    It's interesting how triggered by money people in the comments are. The amount of resources requiered to properly process and care for a specimen like this is inevitably much more over time than the price it sold for. It makes sense that this would be in the realm of rich philanthropists and if it weren't for philanthropy the proletariats wouldn't have near the ssme quality of museums to begin with.
    To make the point, this was purchased by billionare Ken Griffin, a philanthropist with a history of donating to museums. The fossil has been loaned on long term to the Musuem of National History where it is being studied and also displayed for the public.

  • @eddywiyana5524
    @eddywiyana5524 Месяц назад

    Why wasting time with such a small increment of half mio. It is just pocket change. Should at least use 5 mio increment

  • @eltongi9447
    @eltongi9447 5 месяцев назад

    Where does the money go?

  • @psychokarloff
    @psychokarloff 5 месяцев назад +1

    People applauding money is kinda cringeworthy.

  • @ultimobile
    @ultimobile 5 месяцев назад

    a nice round number - for tea

  • @_jaded
    @_jaded 5 месяцев назад +1

    Dystopiaaaaaaa

  • @jasonsseashellandfossilcol390
    @jasonsseashellandfossilcol390 5 месяцев назад

    The constant repeating of the same number is annoying

  • @SuperNkta
    @SuperNkta 5 месяцев назад +5

    Wondering if it was bought by an oil sheikh: "Look what it was before being petrol."

  • @OrontesRM
    @OrontesRM 5 месяцев назад

    ..sold to a private buyer, unfortunately.

  • @davidmiller5007
    @davidmiller5007 5 месяцев назад

    Like watching paint dry, I can't believe this got so much attention. The world needs to get a life.

  • @ostravia
    @ostravia 4 месяца назад

    Shocking behavoiur from idiots battling for a carcass that would kill them instantly who can barely afford it.

  • @bauch16
    @bauch16 13 дней назад

    I want to buy a t rex

  • @justarandomkid3275
    @justarandomkid3275 22 дня назад

    I hope in a few million years our skeletons may be worth more than what we were alive 😢

  • @gynandroidhead
    @gynandroidhead Месяц назад

    Stop telling other people what to do with their money.

  • @tennissir1986
    @tennissir1986 5 месяцев назад

    I bid $1.25.

  • @Intrusion498
    @Intrusion498 5 месяцев назад +5

    This is just sad such an amazing specimen being sold literally prying knowledge out of ppl's hands
    #JUSTICEFORAPEX
    Luckily enough Ken griffin bought apex and apex is gonna be sold into a museum so KEN GRIFFIN IS THE GOAT,THE GOAT!!

    • @seankeef9838
      @seankeef9838 5 месяцев назад +5

      This 'piece'!, will be displayed in a major museum in time. It will bring attention and notoriety towards the owner. Along with a lot of love and affection from the general public that will garner a greater interest towards our evolution and history.

    • @Intrusion498
      @Intrusion498 5 месяцев назад

      @@seankeef9838 you are a gigachad

    • @DreadEnder
      @DreadEnder 5 месяцев назад

      @@seankeef9838I hope but I’m not hopeful. It took decades for deinocheirus to come out of private collections and the Dakota duelling dinosaurs are still in private collection.

    • @Intrusion498
      @Intrusion498 5 месяцев назад

      @@seankeef9838 I edited the comment to reflect this

  • @indivisibleman8596
    @indivisibleman8596 5 месяцев назад

    Nobody has a right to own it

  • @tennissir1986
    @tennissir1986 5 месяцев назад +1

    Sotheby’s = Money Grabbers