During a trip to Chicago, we stopped at The Field Museum to see Sue. Here is an excerpt about him (Sue is a male. He is named after Sue Hendrickson, palaeontologist, the female human responsible for this amazing find. ) from The Field Museum website:
The world-famous fossil known as “Sue” is the largest, best-preserved, and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex ever found. Sue measures 42 feet long from snout to tail and 13 feet tall at the hip. She boasts 58 dagger-like teeth and cuts a fine figure as the Museum’s most popular backdrop for visitor photos. A replica skull crowns the skeleton in Stanley Field Hall, while Sue’s original skull, which weighs 600 pounds, rests within an exhibition on the Museum’s balcony, under a mural depicting this majestic creature in the flesh.
- Marvel at the size and superb preservation of Sue’s skeleton, which is more than 90 percent complete.
- Examine Sue’s original skull from all sides—even underneath—and discover what scientists suspect may have caused the holes in her mighty jaws.
- Explore the difference between fact, theory, and speculation and see clips from pop culture that show how scientific understanding of T. rex has changed over the years.
- Discover what a CT scan of Sue’s skull revealed about T. rex that scientists had not previously known.
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