Famous North Dakota fossil Bob the Triceratops is back on the market

VALLEY CITY, N.D. — As triceratops go, Bob was a big one, and he garnered lots of attention during the year and a half he was displayed at the Barnes County Historical Society in North Dakota.

But in early 2016, Bob was shipped off to a commercial fossil seller in Arizona amid talk that a buyer in the United Arab Emirates had designs on him. The asking price at the time was said to be about $1.4 million.

Then things got quiet, and Bob's fate became something of a mystery — until now.

"I sold him (Bob) to a doctor over in South Korea. He was going to put him in the foyer of his hospital," said Alan Komrosky, whose Valley City business, Hell Creek Relics, works with rural landowners to dig up and market fossils like Bob the triceratops.

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Bob, a triceratops that was displayed for a time at the Barnes County Historical Society in Valley City, was discovered in the far southwestern corner of North Dakota in 2003. It took more than a decade to free the skeleton from the rock in which it was embedded.