A ceratosaurus fossil has sold for US$30 million in New York, infuriating many dinosaur experts. Here’s why they ought to think again.

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If you have a few million dollars to spare, this baby ceratosaurus could be yours. It’s going under the hammer on Wednesday at Sotheby’s in New York, alongside a chunk of the planet Mars.

In addition to T.rex fossils, auction houses have sold skeletons of Triceratops, Diplodocus, Allosaurus, Stegosaurus and the extremely rare and birdlike Deinonychus.

Fossils like this T-Rex are fetching silly amounts of money. Vlad Ghiea/Alamy Sotheby's marketing of the Ceratosaurus highlights how the art market builds narratives around these objects of science.

Even a T. rex fossil foot at the latest Sotheby's auction far exceeded its published estimate of US$250,000–US$300,000, selling for US$1.8 million.