By Carol Tannenhauser
Children of all ages rejoice! A brand new dinosaur is quickly becoming a member of the world-renowned assortment on the American Museum of Natural History — and it’s open for public viewing this Sunday, December 8.
The new dinosaur, generally known as “Apex,” is a Stegosaurus — believed to be the most important ever discovered. It is 11.5 toes tall, 27 toes lengthy, and 80 p.c full, which signifies that a lot of the fossils comprising it are actual.
“It was remarkably nicely preserved for the previous 150 million years,” stated Sean M. Decatur, president of the Museum.
Apex is on a particular four-year mortgage to the AMNH from Kenneth C. Griffin, a financier and philanthropist, who purchased it at public sale from Sotheby’s for $45 million in July of 2024, in line with a museum supply. It was found in 2022 by a industrial paleontologist named Jason Cooper, close to the city of Dinosaur, Colorado. “After the specimen was excavated, ready, and articulated, it was mounted in a defensive pose, with its multi-spiked tail within the air,” a press launch defined.
Before Apex joins its comrades on the Museum’s famed fourth ground subsequent fall, will probably be on view within the alcove on to the appropriate of the doorway to the Gilder Center, on Columbus Avenue and West 79th Street.
In addition to the awe it conjures up, Apex, which is believed to be one of many few Stegosaurus specimens to have lived to a sophisticated age, can be a supply of necessary scientific knowledge for analysis, stated Roger Benson, the museum’s Macaulay Curator of Paleontology.
“Stegosaurus is likely one of the prime dinosaurs identified by most people,” Bensen added, “however, scientifically, we’ve got way more to study.”
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