Sue the T. Rex
A five-thousand-dollar cheque turned out to be worth nothing, and the bones worth eight million.
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How the story begins
Because a truck had a flat tyre, Sue Hendrickson had the day to herself. It was August 1990, near Faith, South Dakota, and the others on her crew had driven to town. She walked over to a cliff and saw bone coming out of it. Peter Larson of the Black Hills Institute, a commercial fossil outfit, identified it as Tyrannosaurus rex. The land belonged to a rancher, Maurice Williams, so on 27 August the Institute wrote him a cheque for five thousand dollars.
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Visiting
Field Museum, on the Museum Campus. The skeleton is inside and needs a museum ticket. Nothing of it can be seen from outside. Check opening hours and prices on the museum's site.
Sources
- Black Hills Institute v. South Dakota School of Mines, 12 F.3d 737 (8th Cir. 1993)
- SUE the T. rex, Field Museum
- Dinosaur fossil sells for $8.36 million, Deseret News, 1997
- The discovery of this incredible dinosaur, BBC Wildlife
- Sue (dinosaur), Wikipedia
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