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Sue stands 13 feet high at the hips and 42 feet long from head to tail. One of the only pieces of Sue that is not mounted is her 5-foot-long skull, which is too heavy to be placed on the steel armature that holds together her more than 200 fossilized bones.
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www.fieldmuseum.org/SUE/about.asp
www.fieldmuseum.org/SUE/about.asp
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Sue the dinosaur was discovered by a fossil hunter named Sue Hendrickson. In the summer of 1990, Hendrickson was working with a team of fossil hunters at a dig site in South Dakota. On the morning of August 12, the team decided to drive into the nearest town.
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www.eduplace.com/activity/big_bad_sue.html
www.eduplace.com/activity/big_bad_sue.html
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The page previously found at this location is now extinct. ... We've removed this page from the UCMP website. Please update your bookmarks. ... Come meet Ardi: the most complete early hominid skeleton.
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www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/extinct.php
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Dinosaur Time Machine - Sue TREX Fossil Pictures. ... Sue TREX Fossils ... Sue is the largest, most complete, and best preserved T-REX in the world. Sue was discovered by fossil hunter Sue Hendrickson in 1990 in South Dakota. Sue is actually located in the field museum in Chicago, but a replical of Sue travels to various...
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www.mantyweb.com/dinosaur/sue_trex.htm
www.mantyweb.com/dinosaur/sue_trex.htm
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"Even by a dinosaur's standards the Tyrannosaurus rex named Sue must have led an unusually difficult life. Its huge skeleton has scars aplenty, bearing witness to several life-threatening injuries sustained more than 65 million years ago.
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idol.union.edu/~garverj/Geo11/sue_dinosaur.htm
idol.union.edu/~garverj/Geo11/sue_dinosaur.htm
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Paleontologist Peter Larson recalls the discovery that made him and his colleagues at the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research instant stars and in trouble with the law in his memoir Rex Appeal: The Amazing Story of Sue, the Dinosaur That Changed Science, the Law, and My Life.
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www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1931229074/qid=10286793...
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1931229074/qid=1028679392/sr=11-1
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August 12, 1990 on the Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota by fossil hunter Sue Hendrickson. On Oct. 4, 1997, the Field Museum purchased the dinosaur at a Sotheby auction for $8.36 million, with financial support from McDonald's Corporation, Walt;
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www.aaskolnick.com/fieldmuseum/sue/sue.htm
www.aaskolnick.com/fieldmuseum/sue/sue.htm
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Big Bad Sue; To find the dinosaur she calls "the biggest, baddest carnivorous beast that ever walked on earth," Hendrickson started with maps made by geologists searching for oil. She identified areas of rock from the late Cretaceous period, when T. rex lived. ... Q & A with Dinosaur Expert Sue Hendrickson...
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www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=2280
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