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# Todd Graves' dinosaur, in plain sight
- URL: https://www.redeyebr.com/todd-graves-dinosaur-in-plain-sight/
- Published: 2026-07-15T02:38:38.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-15T02:38:38.000Z
- Description: Dinosaur fossils are often hidden away. Baton Rouge has one you can see for the price of LASM admission.
- Author: Mukul Verma

A Tyrannosaurus rex named Gus sold at Sotheby’s this week for a colossal sum: $50.1 million, a new record for a dinosaur fossil. The auction house disclosed neither the buyer nor the destination of the 67-million-year-old skeleton.

Dinosaur hunting has become a much bigger business. Wealthy collectors now compete with museums for the finest specimens, giving commercial fossil hunters millions of reasons to dig across private ranches in the American West. Record sales are attracting more buyers, while paleontologists worry that scientifically valuable bones may disappear into private homes.

Closer to Baton Rouge, at least one prominent collector has kept his dinosaur on public view.

Raising Cane’s founder Todd Graves owns Jason, a nearly one-ton, 66-million-year-old Triceratops skull that was found in the fossil-rich Hell Creek Formation. Graves and his family have loaned the dinosaur skull to the Louisiana Art & Science Museum since 2016\. 

Some billionaires buy dinosaurs to keep in their houses. Baton Rouge’s is available to all during museum hours.

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