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On 14 May 1992, a raid led by the states U.S. Attorney Kevin Shieffer with 35 FBI agents and 20 National Guardsmen recovered the Tyrannosaurus rex named "Sue" from Larson's commercial fossil dealership, the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research. The federal agents seized the fossil of "Sue", along with other fossils and records. [2]
According to the Field Museum's associate curator of dinosaurs Pete Makovicky, the new suite was designed to accentuate the size and stature of Sue, and although smaller, the exhibit allows for a more intimate display of the T. rex, [46] along with the skull of a Triceratops and other Cretaceous period artifacts, such as shark teeth and ...
Conrad Canedo shows the size of the 2-ton skull of T. Rex Sue on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, at the Memphis Museum of Science and History. “Sue: The T. Rex Experience” is on display through May 12 ...
Sue: Field Museum of Natural History: Chicago: Illinois: USA: Found in 1990. Most complete. Largest T.rex fossil specimen. Approx. 40 feet long, estimated 9.5 tons (live). [5] Skeleton, mounted (copy) Tyrannosaurus: FMNH PR2081 (copy) Sue (copy) Disney's Animal Kingdom: Bay Lake: Florida: USA: Skeleton, mounted Tyrannosaurus: HMNS 2006.1743.01 ...
Sue was discovered on private land by the dinosaur's namesake -- Susan Hendrickson, a volunteer with the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research (BHIGR) in South Dakota, according Peter ...
The upcoming film, titled “T. Rex” — set to debut on June 21 — captures the young archaeologists’ unexpected journey, which began as an ordinary hike in the Hell Creek formation of their ...
T. rex specimen discovered by Sue Hendrickson She also met Swiss paleontologist Kirby Siber, who allowed her to join his team consisting of paleontologists Carlos Martin and Peter Larson . [ 9 ] The group began excavating Miocene baleen whale fossils at an ancient seabed in Peru, and Hendrickson joined the team for several summers, discovering ...
The museum's website says that at more than 40 feet (12.2 meters) long and 13 feet (4 meters) tall at the hip, Sue is the largest Tyrannosaurus rex specimen discovered and the most complete ...