The rich and famous frequently change the medium they use to make a statement. If today it is a collection of Impressionist masters, tomorrow it can be a large family of adopted children collected from different cultures. Displaying a definite taste for the bizarre, moneyed collectors are now flocking fossil auctions like never before.
In April, a 65-million-year-old Triceratops skeleton went under the hammer in Paris, and sold for a hard-to-imagine us $789,343. In March, a prehistoric Siberian mammoth fetched a whopping us $394,662 in New York. The people who buy them are usually Hollywood A-listers, captains of industry and royalty. Hollywood actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicholas Cage even locked horns in a bidding war to obtain the head of a Tyrannosaurus bataar (the Asian cousin of T rex). Christie