Then there is the matter of the actual method by which Stegosaurus processed its food. It probably did not chew its food to any great degree, but instead sliced through soft plants before swallowing.

Hedge-fund billionaire Ken Griffin bought the fossil, a Stegosaurus known as “Apex,” for a record $44.6 million during a Sotheby’s auction in July.

Puchased by billionaire Ken Griffin for $45 million, the stegosaurus known as Apex in now on view at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC.

The most expensive fossil ever sold at auction is headed to the Big Apple. The remains of a stegosaurus—now known as Apex—have a new home in N.Y.C’s American Museum of Natural History, where they will ...