Mike goes hands-on with the Norqain Independence Skeleton 40mm ✓ Is this the open-worked model that changes his mind? ✓ Read ...

The Apex skeleton, however, is more than 30% larger, according to Sotheby’s. Previously, the record for the most money paid for a fossil at auction was set in 2020, when a Tyrannosaurus rex ...

The excavation took an entire day, Van Scoyoc said. The team hiked 13 miles roundtrip into the backcountry, extracted the fossil in two pieces and hiked back with a skeleton in their backpacks.