Stan (dinosaur)

Stan, Tyrannosaurus rex, on show in Abu Dhabi in 2022: the original fossil skeleton rather than one of the many copies. Named after Stan Sacrison, who found it, Stan sold at Christie's in 2020 for $31.8 million, and the buyer stayed secret until 2022, when Abu Dhabi announced it would be displayed there. It is now a headline exhibit at the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, which opened on November 22, 2025. If you have seen a Stan in another museum, you almost certainly saw a cast: high-quality copies of its bones stand in museums around the world.