It’s a childhood classic, the beloved prehistoric behemoth, the stegosaurus. The dinosaur lived around 150 million years ago during the Jurassic period, lumbering around what is now Wyoming, but it recently broke records at auction in New York.
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00:00This is a childhood classic, a beloved prehistoric behemoth, the Stegosaurus.
00:09The dinosaur lived around 150 million years ago during the Jurassic period, lumbering
00:14around what is now Wyoming.
00:16But this guy will soon live somewhere else in the world, as it just sold at auction.
00:20It is the most complete fossilized skeleton of this species ever found, and it just fetched
00:25some 44.6 million dollars at Sotheby's in New York.
00:29The creature stands 11 feet tall and stretches 20 feet in length, so we hope whomever bought
00:34it has plenty of room to spare.
00:36This is Cassandra Hatton, head of the auction house's science and pop culture division.
00:40Up here is a favorite detail.
00:43This is one of the tail chevrons, if you look at the tail, the spikes underneath, this tells
00:48us that the animal died with the tail curled up under it, so it was in a death pose.
00:55She went on to say that it also had signs of a bone bubble, which is caused by too vigorously
01:00mating, but that that tells us a lot about the individual creature.
01:04Little details like that tell us a lot about this animal, you know.
01:09It was around other stegosauruses, it had a good relationship with other stegosauruses,
01:15it lived a long life and likely died of old age.