Tyrannosaurus rex sold for a record price. By Gretchen VogelAn unusually complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossil has sold for a record-breaking $31.8 million at an auction that has dismayed many paleontologists.The specimen, officially called BHI 3033, is popularly known as Stan, after its discoverer, amateur paleontologist Stan Sacrison, who found it in 1987 in the Hell Creek Formation near the town of Buffalo, South Dakota.
The fossil has been located at the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research.The sale price dwarfs the $8.36 million the Field Museum of Natural History paid in 1997 for the T.