 Apex was born in America, and it's going to stay in America. Wednesday's auction was not the first to offer dinosaur fossils to commercial bidders. According to Sotheby's, a Tyrannosaurus Rex and the first ever dinosaur to be sold in auction went for $8.4 million in 1997, and Stan, another Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton, sold for $31.8 million in 2020.