Dave Hone

I liken, you know, if you're not buying like teeth or an ammonite in some small fossil shop, you know, when you're buying, talking about things like whole dinosaurs and whole tyrannosaurs, I think it's a bit like the art market in it's worth what people will pay for it.

And so, you know, plenty of T-Rexes had sold for a few million dollars and therefore everyone thought it would, might be five, you know, 10 would be an absurd sum of money.

And then it went for 30 and it's like, okay, well,

I was going to say someone wanted it that bad but clearly not two people wanted it that bad because if only one guy is prepared to bid 30 then it goes for

you know, a million more than the next highest bidder.

But presumably two people, if not three, bid it to get that high.

I know they've got it.

And that record has been since beaten apparently by... By Apex, the Stegosaurus, which I still haven't seen, though a friend of mine has sent me some photos of this thing.

Is it impressive to you, this thing?

Not especially.

That's why I can't imagine that it sold for that much.

It's a really nice Stegosaurus.

It's a pretty big Stegosaurus.

I've seen other very good Stegosaurus, and I don't understand why that's worth that much more than something like Stan.

But it shows you the market.

So we're here in London.

There's a Stegosaurus called Sophie in the Natural History Museum in London.

Sophie is a young animal, so she's not very big.

I mean, it's a sizable specimen.

I'd say five-ish, six meters off the top of my head total length.