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The 1998 4-episode television special Dinosaurs: Inside and Out extensively discussed Sue, mentioning the now-disproven theory that it was killed by a bite to the back of the head by another T. rex. [citation needed] Sue was the subject of a 2000 educational computer game called I See SUE, which was published by Simon and Schuster Interactive. [57]
Hendrickson is best known for her discovery of the remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex in South Dakota on August 12, 1990, in the Cheyenne River Reservation. Her discovery is the most complete skeleton of Tyrannosaurus known to science. This skeleton is now known as "Sue" in honor of her.
He led the team that excavated "Sue", one of the largest and most complete specimens of Tyrannosaurus rex, which was the subject of a legal dispute resulting in its seizure and public auction. In 1996, Larson was convicted of customs violations related to failing to declare money he had brought from overseas, and served 18 months in prison.
T. Rex Sue, as she likely appeared when alive, clutches the corpse of an Edmontosaurus between her teeth on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, at the Memphis Museum of Science and History.
The museum on Friday will unveil the 40-1/2-foot-long (12.3-meter) Sue, one of the world's best-known dinosaur fossils, in the giant meat-eater's new permanent exhibition space after 10 months of ...
Curators and paleontologists told ABC News they believe a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton named "Sue" was the catalyst behind dinosaurs being sold for exorbitant prices.
The film depicts events that began in 1990, when American paleontologist Sue Hendrickson working with Pete Larson and his Black Hills Institute of Geological Research team discovered the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found (nicknamed "Sue") while digging in the badlands near Faith, South Dakota.
The skeleton, named "The Nation's T. rex" [34] became the centerpiece of the dinosaur hall when it reopened in 2019. [35] Casts of MOR 555 are on display at the National Museum of Scotland , [ 36 ] the Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum , and the University of California Museum of Paleontology .