How To Draw Sue The T Rex

The Story of a Dinosaur Named SUE

The following pages requite a brusk history of the T.rex, named SUE, past the people straight involved in her excavation, initial preparation, and ownership.

This get-go installment (spread over three pages) follows SUE from her discovery and excavation through her initial grooming. The second half finds SUE the object of a raid and seizure, a court case, and, eventually, an auction.

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SUE's Discovery, Excavation, and Early Training

past Neal L. Larson
Black Hills Institute of Geological Enquiry, Inc.
May 18, 2000

The Beginning

Ten years ago, SUE, the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton of so much acclaim, laid buried most the bottom of a large hill in north fundamental South Dakota. She had remained entombed and unnoticed, since her death approximately lx-5 1000000 years ago.

During her lifetime, she must have been a real terror! She stood over twelve anxiety high at the hips, more than forty-ane anxiety long, and had a skull more than than five feet in length with sockets for l-8 teeth. Some of these teeth protruded more than six inches out of the skull! She was an old animal (no ane knows how old), with a beat up, sore, heavily damaged torso. She had been through a lifetime of scrapes and battles and had always come out a winner, until the day she laid down and died in a stream that helped preserve her body in a most remarkable manner. There she, and all her secrets remained buried until August 12, 1990, when Susan Hendrickson discovered her weathering out almost the base of operations of a 50 pes cliff.

Sue was a volunteer with the Black Hills Institute of Geological Inquiry. She had kickoff met my brother, Pete Larson during a trip to Peru in 1985 with Kirby Siber, founder of the Saurier Museum in Switzerland. Sue and Pete became very close during that trip, and Sue later moved to Loma City to be with Pete. She became actively involved with many of the excavations Pete undertook. Although her work took her all over the world buying and collecting amber, pearls, minerals, ammonites, and other items, she never lost her passion for archeological digs or for her paleontological excavations with Pete and the Institute.

Since 1979, the Black Hills Institute operated a dinosaur quarry due north of Faith, Southward Dakota on the Ruth Stonemason Ranch. There, nosotros excavated the partial remains of hundreds of disarticulated Edmontosaurus annectens (duckbill dinosaur) skeletons.

The Ruth Bricklayer Dinosaur Quarry experience taught BHI staff the means to collect bones apace, efficiently, and without impairment. It was at the quarry besides, that early mapping techniques were acquired. Institute staff collected all associated fossils at the site, every bit well, including leaves, bister, woods, invertebrates, and micro vertebrates. From this data, we were able to put together an first-class movie of the paleo environment at the Ruth Mason Quarry. We realized early on, the importance of preserving information virtually all the creature at this and every site where we would collect.

At the Ruth Mason Quarry, we had a unique approach to paleontological excavation. We allowed interested people (volunteers) from all walks of life, the opportunity to learn proper excavation procedures and the Plant's innovative techniques for gratuitous!

During this time, a coiffure from the Academy of Wisconsin, Madison, led by Klaus Westphal, came to learn and to aid excavate bones at the site. The Madison group worked with united states for three years. We and then gave them plenty basic to mountain the largest Edmontosaurus skeleton on display to date. Information technology was through our clan with Westphal'due south clan that we first met Terry Wentz, a volunteer with the group, who later became SUE's chief preparator.

We also hosted groups from the Memphis Pink Palace Museum, the University of Kansas, the New Mexico Bureau of Mines, the Denver Museum, the Yale Peabody Museum, Kirby Siber and his crew from Switzerland, and from numerous stone and fossil clubs.

Walter Cronkite and his photo crew visited, and did a segment for a series he hosted called "Dinosaur, The Biggest Story Ever Told".

We also allowed hundreds of private volunteers to participate in the experience of a lifetime - digging dinosaur bones! The Ruth Mason Quarry was an platonic opportunity for hereafter paleontologists to hone their digging and field preparation skills under the guidance of the very experienced Blackness Hills Institute staff.

In July, 1990, we went back to the Ruth Mason dinosaur dig for our almanac four to six week digging season. Subsequently setting up our camp, we set up out toward the dig and constitute a dead equus caballus on the property.

Over the next several days, we checked with the neighboring country owners, attempting to notify the possessor of the status of the horse. Maurice Williams, a neighbor who was missing a horse, came over and identified this one as belonging to him.

Maurice visited us at the Mason Quarry and became very interested in what we were doing. He told us he owned a lot of land and had numerous "badlands-like" outcrops on his property. He invited us to come up to his property and prospect for fossils. We told Maurice that if we institute anything, nosotros could give him some coin for it. He said he would be happy just to have someone await on the identify to see what they could discover.

SUE T. rex Story

 1) Beginning
2) Discovery / Excavation
three) Initial Preparation
4) Raid and seizure
five) Costless SUE / Court case
6) Final Chapter

- STAN the T. rex
- SUE the T. rex
-T. rex specimen chart
-Acrocanthosaurus
- CLAWS Struthiomimus
- Horned Dinosaurs
- KELSEY Triceratops
-Edmontosaurus

- Fossil Birds

- Mammals
- Dinosaurs & Birds
- Reptiles & Amphibians
- Fishes

- Mollusks
- Echinoderms
- Arthropods

 - Plants & Amber

 - Minerals
- Meteorites
- Geology

Source: https://www.bhigr.com/pages/info/info_sue.htm

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