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Sue was featured in the Dresden Files book series book 7, Dead Beat, as being part of the Field Museum exhibits; the central character later uses Sue to ride into battle as a reanimated zombie T. rex. [58] Sue’s discovery and the subsequent legal battles were featured in Director Todd Miller's documentary Dinosaur 13, which premiered at the ...
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 ...
Eventually, in May 2000, Sue's skeleton went on display at the Field Museum. This discovery was huge for the world of discovery and dinosaur bone excavation, marking Sue as a monumental icon in ...
The jawline of T. Rex Sue is on display on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, at the Memphis Museum of Science and History. “Sue: The T. Rex Experience” is on display through May 12, 2024 at the Memphis ...
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]
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 ...
On May 17, 2000, the Field Museum unveiled Sue, the largest T. rex specimen discovered at the time. Sue has a length of 40.5 feet (12.3 m), stands 13 feet (4.0 m) tall at the hips, and has been estimated at 8.4–14 metric tons (9.26–15.4 short tons) as of 2018. [65] [66] The specimen is estimated to be 67 million years old.
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