a terrible, rough life. the skull of sue had actually had the left side of the lower jaw had been literally ripped out of the socket, still held together here at the symphysis, where the two ends of the lower jaw come together in the front, but it s been torn loose from the socket which allows the jaw to open and close. and the postorbital, the bone directly behind the eye, was broken and pulled outwards and laying at sort of a weird angle, so i think that she actually died from the attack of another tyrannosaurus rex. that was a big job. i mean, it took me a year, literally a year just to, you know, remove individual bones from around the skull and then, and then to take that, the giant hipbones off of the nose. we finally were able to lift the pelvis off of sue s skull in the beginning of may 1992. taking that hip off of sue s skull was critical to doing it right, because you don t have a second chance. you okay there, terry? oh!
the pelvis off of sue s skull in the beginning of may 1992. taking that hip off of sue s skull was critical to doing it right, because you don t have a second chance. you okay there, terry? oh! okay. if you think of two big ships, you know, when you get those kind of weights going on, one little movement, you don t know what s going on. it could be cracking it all the way through inside. okay, go. go. go, go, go, go, go, go, go. yeah, that must be where the weight is. yep. yep. okay, it s looking good. we re free here. we re free here. what am i down to? hey, we re loose in the front finally! all right. yeah!
the beginning of may 1992. taking that hip off of sue s skull was critical to doing it right, because you don t have a second chance. you okay there, terry? oh! okay. if you think of two big ships, you know, when you get those kind of weights going on, one little movement, you don t know what s going on. it could be cracking it all the way through inside. okay, go. go. go, go, go, go, go, go, go. yeah. that must be where the weight is. yep. yep. okay, it s looking good. we re free here. we re free here. what am i down to? hey, we re loose in the front finally! all right. yeah!
giant hipbones off of the nose. we finally were able to lift the pelvis off of sue s skull in the beginning of may 1992. taking that hip off of sue s skull was critical to doing it right, because you don t have a second chance. you okay there, terry? oh! okay. if you think of two big ships, you know, when you get those kind of weights going on, one little movement, you don t know what s going on. it could be cracking it all the way through inside. okay, go. go. go, go, go, go, go, go, go. yeah. that must be where the weight is. yep. yep. okay, it s looking good. we re at three here. we re at three here. what am i down to? hey, we re loose in the front finally!
taking that hip off of sue s skull was critical to doing it right, because you don t have a second chance. you okay there, terry? oh! okay. if you think of two big ships, you know, when you get those kind of weights going on, one little movement, you don t know what s going on. it could be cracking it all the way through inside. okay, go. go. go, go, go, go, go, go, go. yeah. that must be where the weight is. yep. yep. okay, it s looking good. we re at three here. we re at three here. what am i down to? hey, we re loose in the front finally! all right. yeah! that moment, when we made that separation, that was