India, Oct. 12 -- Should one be able to simply. buy a dinosaur?

When Apex, one of the world's most complete Stegosaurus skeletons, came up for auction at a Sotheby's event in New York in July, bidding opened at $3 million (about Rs.25 crore). It eventually sold for $44.6 million (about Rs.374 crore).

Apex's new owner, it turned out, was the billionaire Kenneth Griffin, CEO of the hedge fund Citadel.

In a sense, it isn't surprising that he had his heart set on the fossil.

Apex is 11 ft tall and 150 million years old. It is 30% larger than the Stegosaurus that previously held the record for largest skeleton. It also has most of its armour, and most of its spiky spine and spiked tail intact.

To have such a treasure in private hands is t...