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One of the Largest T. Rex Skeletons Ever Found Can Be Yours If You’ve Got $30 Million Lying Around

The fossil is named after the late Gary “Gus” Licking.

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If you’ve long dreamed of having a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton on display in your studio apartment, Sotheby’s has some good news, assuming you also have somewhere between $20 million and $30 million lying around. One of the largest and most complete T. rex skeletons ever discovered will go up for auction on July 14.

Gus is 38 feet long and about 12.5 feet tall. He’s roughly 63 percent complete by bone count, making it one of the most complete T. rex specimens ever offered for sale. The fossil is named after the late Gary “Gus” Licking, a South Dakota cattle rancher who spent years finding small fossils on his 6,500-acre property before correctly assuming there had to have been a much larger specimen somewhere........

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