[BenLurkin]

$26 million for the dinosaur skeleton

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I just happen to have one of those in my back yard!

[SunkenCiv]

• Thanks! The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going up for auction in New York [07/13/2025]

[Larry Lucido]

after having been blown off the surface of Mars by a massive asteroid strike and traveling 140 million miles (225 million kilometers) to Earth

*******

Man, what are the odds?

Was the usual 20% tariff collected?

[from occupied ga]

Fast forward 150 years. What’s this piece of rock doing in great grandad’s estate? I dunno. Looks just like any old piece of rock to me. Throw it out.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

In 5 years, it will be worth nothing after musk starts mining.

[MtnClimber]

I wonder what I could get for a chunk of Erf from before global warming/climate change melted everything?

[GingisK]

How do they know it came from Mars?

[Fresh Wind]

No wonder Musk wants to go to Mars.

[sit-rep]

and how exactly do they know so confidently that it is indeed from mars?

[SkyDancer]

Heck, we got dozens of rocks on our hillside that look just like that .... I wonder if .....

[PGR88]

I can only imagine the price of this dropping in the future

Doesn’t Elon Musk want to mine Mars and bring massive quantities of Mars’ rocks back to earth?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Bidding for the juvenile Ceratosaurus nasicornis dinosaur skeleton started with a high advance bid of $6 million, then escalated with offers $500,000 higher than the last and later $1 million higher than the last before ending at $26 million. The official sale price was $30.5 million with fees and costs.

Wow. When I checked Sotheby's web site last week, the current bid on that skeleton was $3.5M. It went for almost 10x that. It was a spectacular piece, though - congrats to whoever can afford to buy and display that thing in their living room.

[GreatRoad]

Found in Niger by a meteorite hunter, who is also a Nigerian prince.

[Libloather]

Next auction - a rock from Uranus.