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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]
Sue Hendrickson: Explorer of Land and Sea. Philadelphia, PA: Chelsea House Publishers. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-7910-7713-9. "Dinosaur discoverer trusts intuition", The Oprah Winfrey Show. "Ask a Dinosaur Expert", an interview with Sue Hendrickson conducted by Scholastic Press; Dinosaur Named Sue (2003), Bt Bound. ISBN 0-613-36416-3. Sue hendrickson
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 ...
Peter Lars Larson (born 1952) is an American fossil dealer who is head of the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, which specialises in the excavation and preparation of fossils. 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 ...
Dead some 67 million years, Sue was discovered in 1990 in South Dakota by fossil collector Sue Hendrickson, for whom the dinosaur is named. (Because of this name, people often refer to Sue as "she ...
In May 1992, the remains of "Sue" were seized from the BHI by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and were auctioned off five years later to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois for US$7.6 million – the highest price ever paid for a fossil at the time. [3]
The fossils, estimated to date back 90 million years, were part of a new dinosaur species previously unknown in East Asia. It’s unclear how long Port Island will remain closed to visitors.
The fossil was named after the person who discovered it, Sue Hendrickson, and is commonly referred to as female, although the dinosaur's actual sex is unknown. [67] The original skull is not mounted to the body due to the difficulties in examining the specimen 13 feet off the ground, and for nominal aesthetic reasons (the replica does not ...