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The American Museum of Natural History is relocating Apex, a 150-million-year-old skeleton, to a new spot near its dinosaur halls.
Oct. 15, 2025, 5:03 a.m. ET
Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll look at the new display of an 11-foot-tall stegosaurus skeleton that’s opening soon at the American Museum of Natural History.
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What’s the right place to display an 11-foot-tall, 27-foot-long, 150-million-year-old stegosaurus skeleton that is among the largest and most complete specimens of its kind in the world?
It turns out the first choice is not always the best.
After the hedge fund billionaire Kenneth Griffin bought the skeleton in question for a record-breaking $44.6 million at auction last year, he lent it to the American Museum of Natural History, which is known for its dinosaur and fossil collections.
But the time between Griffin’s acquisition of the huge fossil, nicknamed Apex, and its arrival at the museum was so short, the writer Mark A. Stein reports, staff members had to scramble to find an appropriate spot for it. They had every reason to try.
“To get something this complete, in such good shape, is very rare,” Melissa Posen, the museum’s senior director of exhibition operations, told Stein.
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