Billionaire Buys Largest Stegosaurus Skeleton Ever for $44 Million

The largest, most intact, late-Jurassic stage stegosaurus skeleton ever recovered was sold at auction for a record $44.6 million on Wednesday, making it the most valuable fossil ever sold to a private buyer.

The 11-foot-high, 27-foot-long fossil was sold to Citadel CEO and hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin in the auction, facilitated by Sotheby's, which called it "the finest for stegosaurus to ever come to market." Named "Apex," the skeleton was excavated by paleontologist Jason Cooper...