Sue Hendrickson found a fossil Tyrannosaurus rex in 1990 sticking
out of a cliff in South Dakota. For a while it was a dream come true: the
largest and most complete T. rex ever found. Everyone got excited. Then
reality bit back and years of legal fights. The result? Chicago’s Field Museum
paid $8.36 million. That kind of price turns fossils into trophies,
putting palaeontology at risk. Steve Fiffer’s Tyrannosaurus Sue tells
the tale in an embarrassingly emotional way (fossils call out from cliffs to
passers-by). Published by W. H. Freeman, 拢16.95, ISBN 0716740176.
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