--- title: "Digits: T. rex money, new cars, Mars, and more - The Hustle" description: "Plus: Music royalties and sky-high art prices." image: https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/1534829207-News-Brief_2022-03-28T033641.496Z-1024x576.webp --- # Digits: T. rex money, new cars, Mars, and more ![Jacob Cohen](https://thehustle.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IMG_5670-1-modified-768x768.png?width=48&height=48&name=IMG_5670-1-modified-768x768.png) [Jacob Cohen](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/author/jacob-cohen) [Jacob Cohen Twitter profile ](https://twitter.com/ImJacobCohen) Published: March 28, 2022 Updated: October 11, 2023 **1)** A 39-foot South Dakotan T. rex skeleton, which seemingly vanished after being purchased by an anonymous buyer in October 2020 [**for $31.8m**](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/stan-the-t-rex-found-worlds-most-expensive-fossil-finds-home-in-a-new-museum?), has resurfaced. It was reportedly shipped to the UAE for display in the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi… which reminds us of the whole $276k Nic Cage Mongolian [fossil debacle](https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35159082). ![Digits: T. rex money, new cars, Mars, and more](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/hs-fs/hubfs/The%20Hustle%20News/Assets/Images/1534829207-News-Brief_2022-03-28T033641.496Z-1024x576.webp?width=595&height=400&name=1534829207-News-Brief_2022-03-28T033641.496Z-1024x576.webp) **2)** In February, the average price of a new car in the US was $46,085, [**up $4.7k**](https://www.kbb.com/car-news/average-new-car-price-declines-still-5k-higher-than-a-year-ago/) from a year prior. Aside from inflation and supply chain pressures, dealers are running up prices, with buyers paying $900+ above sticker price (compared to $1.5k *below* a year ago.) **3)** After heading to Mars with a 5-flight mission, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter recently completed its 22nd flight, staying afloat for [**101.4 seconds**](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-soars-on-22nd-red-planet-flight/) and hitting 33 feet of altitude. Ingenuity has now flown a combined 15k+ feet for ~39 minutes. Not bad, NASA. **4) **In 2021, there were [**1,040 artists**](https://newsroom.spotify.com/2022-03-24/spotifys-top-10-takeaways-on-the-economics-of-music-streaming-and-2021-royalty-data/) who earned $1m+ in Spotify royalties, up from 860 in 2020. There were 130 artists who made $5m+ on Spotify, 52.6k that made $10k+, and [238k+](https://loudandclear.byspotify.com/) songs that got 1m+ streams. **5) **An Andy Warhol portrait of Marilyn Monroe is expected to be auctioned in May [**for $200m**](https://news.artnet.com/market/andy-warhol-marilyn-christies-200m-2087993). A friendly reminder that, in 2017, da Vinci’s *Salvator Mundi* was expected to go for $100m and ended up selling for $450.3m, so… Meanwhile, a CryptoPunk NFT could go for 5.5k ETH (~$17m), valued that high mostly because it’s [wearing](https://twitter.com/seedphrase/status/1507409457994956800?s=20&t=yBGs93UEfh6bpBV_yN06xQ) a hoodie. 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