Biography & Early Wealth Journey

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Most of the other around 50 existent T. rex fossils are also on display in museums around the world, so hopefully whoever Stan's new owner is will find a way to keep him accessible to the public in some way. The recent CNBC report on Stan's sale says that's what happened the last time a complete T. rex fossil was sold at auction: in 1997, when a fossil by the name of "Sue" fetched $8.36 million from Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, with corporations like Disney and McDonald's helping to foot the bill along with various other contributors.

Stan was named after one Stan Sacrison, the amateur paleontologist who discovered the bones back in 1987. According to experts, Stan weighed as much as eight tons when he was alive, and over the course of his life suffered various injuries including a broken neck and punctures in his ribs and skull.