Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Sue [a] (stylized: SUE), officially designated FMNH PR 2081, is one of the largest, [b] most extensive, and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex fossils ever found, at over 90 percent recovered by bulk. [4] FMNH PR 2081 was discovered on August 12, 1990, [5] by American explorer and fossil collector Sue Hendrickson, after whom it is named.
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. It is on display at the Field Museum in Chicago
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.
Perhaps the largest-known Tyrannosaurus, a specimen named Sue at the Field Museum in Chicago, is 40-1/2 feet (12.3 meters) long. This individual lived about 67 million years ago, near the ...
As diggers uncovered more and more bones, they realized Sue represented the largest and most complete specimen of a Tyrannosaurus rex ever found. Acquired by the Chicago museum for about $8 ...
Tyrannosaurus: MOR 555: Wankel Rex: National Museum of Natural History: Washington, D.C. District of Columbia: USA: On lease from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers [6] Skeleton, mounted (copy) Tyrannosaurus: MOR 555 (copy) Big Mike Museum of the Rockies: Bozeman: Montana: USA: Big Mike is a bronze cast of MOR 555 Skeleton, mounted (copy ...
The museum - already home to the skeleton of Sue, perhaps the biggest and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex - did not disclose the price paid for the Archaeopteryx fossil.
His findings, published in 2019, yielded that Scotty is the largest (in weight and length), having out-measured the previous largest known Tyrannosaurus rex: Sue of the Chicago Field Museum (FMNH 2081). [13] After prolonged study of the growth patterns in the bones, "Scotty" was also declared as one of the oldest known T. rex fossils at 30 ...