Stegosaurus skeleton, nicknamed 'Apex,' sells for record $44.6M at Sotheby's auction

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Stegosaurus skeleton, nicknamed 'Apex,' sells for record $44.6M at Sotheby's auction

A nearly complete stegosaurus skeleton sold at a Sotheby's auction in New York on Wednesday for a record $44.6 million -- the most ever paid for a fossil.

The dinosaur, nicknamed "Apex" -- which lived between 146 and 161 million years ago in the Late Jurassic Period -- was originally expected to sell for between $4 million and $6 million, according to the auction house.

Sotheby's has said Apex is the "most complete and best-preserved Stegosaurus specimen of its size ever discovered."

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Absolutely beautiful!