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Sue was the subject of a 2000 educational computer game called I See SUE, which was published by Simon and Schuster Interactive. [57] 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 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
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.
Sue, the largest and most complete (90%) Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton yet discovered. 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.
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.
English: Sue, the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered, at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. Taken from second floor of the museum. Taken from second floor of the museum. Deutsch: „Sue“ im Chicagoer Field Museum.
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The museum purchased the cast in 2008, and it remains a center piece of the museum, which is home to numerous other dinosaur fossils, notable T. rex skulls, and skull fragments. [10] Another cast resided at Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park in the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, which is also home to a cast of Sue. [3]