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By human standards, Sue the T.rex died young at 28. But for a dinosaur, she had a host of ailments akin to a senior citizen. See how her skeleton tells the story at The Field Museum in Chicago.
Shimmying something as huge as Sue the T. rex indoors is not easy, even with the lofty ceilings and 8,000 square feet of ground inside Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s Anschutz Gallery.
Sue Hendrickson, second from right, the woman who discovered the T. rex dinosaur, watches as the jaw bone is released from a mold at the McDonald's Fossil Preparation Lab at the Field Museum on ...
— SUE the T. rex 🦖 (@SUEtheTrex) February 8, 2018. As Sue comes off her mount, the skeleton crew uses Allen wrenches to take each piece apart, the same tools you might use on IKEA furniture.
Sue has no known gender, but in the years since the Field Museum acquired the fossil for a record-breaking $8.4 million in 1997, experts have learned a lot about T. rex dinosaurs, the museum said ...
SUE — intentionally in all caps, according to the museum, and named after the paleontologist who discovered her — is the largest, most complete and best-preserved T. rex ever found, according ...
Here’s what. “Sue isn’t jealous,” chirped noted paleontologist Sue Hendrickson, who discovered the most complete T. rex skeleton while rummaging around dino country in South Dakota decades ...
SUE the T. rex is one of the most complete, best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex specimens ever found. That level of preservation helps reveal details about SUE's life. For instance, SUE lived to a ...
Sue is the most complete T. rex fossil ever found, with 250 bones out of the approximately 380 bones in a T. rex. By bone volume, the skeleton is 90% complete. For a fossil to form, sediment has ...
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