Logan Paul bought a $500,000 dinosaur skull instead of investing in stocks — and says it's already doubled in value

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Logan Paul says his 66-million-year-old Triceratops skull is 1 of the top investments he's ever made.

In a caller occurrence of the Iced Coffee Hour podcast (1), the influencer and pro wrestler said dinosaurs are "one of the champion plus classes to put in."

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"Over the adjacent 20 years, I bash deliberation a dinosaur is going to outperform the banal market," Paul told co-hosts Graham Stephan and Jack Selby.

He bought his prized Triceratops skull for $500,000 3 years agone and believes it's doubled successful worth to $1 million.

This month, Singapore-based crypto capitalist and creation collector Chaw Wei Yang, 26, sold different Triceratops — a much implicit skeleton helium bought a mates of years agone — for $5.5 million.

"Of each the alternate assets I grew up seeing — wine, art, cars — I deliberation dinosaurs are the astir untapped, investment-wise," Yang told (2) CNN.

Dinosaur fossils surely basal retired arsenic a beauteous utmost plus class, befitting a WWE wrestler. Here's a look astatine whether they're a bully one.

Betting large connected bones

As CNN reports (3), dinosaur fossils are fetching millions of dollars astatine auction:

• October 2020. "Stan," 1 of the astir implicit Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons successful the world, sold for $31.8 cardinal to the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism. It was a record-setting price.

• July 2024. Billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin, CEO of Catalyst, shelled retired (4) $44.6 cardinal to bargain (5) "Apex," a Stegosaurus skeleton, mounting a caller satellite record. He has since loaned (6) the specimen to the American Museum of Natural History for 4 years.

• July 2025. A uncommon Ceratosaurus fossil sold for $30.5 cardinal successful a bidding war.

But bash they bushed retired equities arsenic a mode to physique wealth?

Iced Coffee Hour co-host Graham Stephan asked Paul — who owns zero stocks — wherefore he'd put millions successful fossils and not the banal market.

Paul responded that it was each astir the intrinsic worth of "the coolest portion of art" and a consciousness of awe, admiring dinosaurs arsenic "the top taxon to ever roam the Earth."

"To get to ain a portion of that and fto myself beryllium inspired and number my blessings each time and similar look up astatine the entity and recognize my humanity," helium said. "Like, bro, Nvidia banal can't marque maine bash that."