Kyle Hagee

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Morning Brew Daily · JPMorgan Has Historic Q2 & New York Temporarily Bans Data Centers · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

Instead, it's something millions of years old, covered in dirt, and completely dead.

Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils.

That's right, if you don't own bones, then you're not really rich rich anymore.

And yesterday, an anonymous buyer purchased a 67-million-year-old T-Rex named Gus for just north of $50 million at Sotheby's auction in New York, the most ever paid for a dino.

The name Gus is an homage to the farmer who owned the land in the South Dakota Badlands where the excavation took place.

In 2023, the dig was complete.

But it took three years for the team to document and reconstruct the T-Rex back in the lab.

Now, the first time a dinosaur was on auction at Sotheby's was back in 1997, where Sue, the T-Rex, made history and sold for $8 million to the Field Museum in Chicago.

Fast forward almost three decades, and it's not museums, but multimillionaires who are now first in line to purchase.

For example, Ken Griffin, the billionaire CEO of Citadel, famously bought Apex, the Stegosaurus, for $44.6 million in 2024.

and subsequently loaned the specimen to the American Museum of Natural History in NYC for a four-year public display.

While the buyer of Gus remains anonymous, debate about the private ownership of historic fossils is in full view, with a tension between the scientific community and private purchasers.

Ray, are you willing to admit you're the anonymous buyer of Gus?

I think you did it.

Yeah, and I think the argument on the other side is that these excavations are very dangerous, to your point.

Some people do actually die from these excavations.

They're very intense.

There's no guarantee of success.

And so in order to incentivize people to try to find these, there has to be a payout for them at the end, and they're going to want the most money possible.

And in the U.S., if you find something in your private property, it's yours.

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