Odd Lots: Inside a Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils (Podcast)

Two years ago, Citadel’s Ken Griffin paid almost $45 million or a stegosaurus skeleton, making it the most expensive fossil ever sold at auction. So why are dinosaur bones joining the collections of millionaires instead of museums? How does the private market for fossils actually work? And how similar is it to the market for art and other antiquities? In this episode, we speak with Salomon Aaron, a director at London-based gallery David Aaron, where he is the gallery’s in-house broker for dinosa