A towering Stegosaurus dinosaur fossil, standing 11-feet tall and spanning 20 feet in length is heading to auction at Sotheby's in New York on July 17. Cassandra Hatton, the auction house's global head of science and popular culture, said the dinosaur, named Apex, "is the largest, most complete Stegosaurus ever found." - REUTERS
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00:00Apex is the largest, most complete Stegosaurus ever found.
00:06I mean, who wouldn't be excited about these massive creatures?
00:31I think we've been, you know, we've been talking about them forever.
00:34We've kind of built them into mythology, the concept of dragons and Godzilla.
00:39I mean, our Earth was so wildly different, ruled by completely different creatures.
00:46And all we have left are kind of, you know, the fossilized evidence of their existence.
00:52And, you know, I think it's also a really important reminder that the same thing could
00:58easily happen to us.
01:02And we're much smaller and more fragile than they are.