of lake michigan. that is, of course, in chicago, at the renowned field museum. sue s bones went on the auction block at sotheby s auction house in new york. bidding started at $500,000 and ended at $7.6 million, but totaled $8.4 million, after a fee to the auction house. mcdonald s and the walt disney house helped foot and the bill and the field museum reaps the benefit. south dakotaens say she should have stayed here. morris williams was there in the building and i glanced up at him, this man, supported by our government, in receiving $7 point whatever it was million dollars, but that fossil should
we found out all kinds of cool things about this dinosaur. broken and healed bones all over the skeleton. this animal had a terrible life, 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
someplace. we always felt an extraordinary obligation to get this fossil to the right home. clearly, there were a lot of really interested parties that were hoping and praying they had a chance. we had dreams, after the auction started developing, that perhaps we could buy her back. a wonderful philanthropist from our area, sam aid lstein, really wanted to help get sue back to south dakota. in visiting with pete, i was fascinated with the possibility that we d have this fantastic dinosaur back in the state where she belonged. stan came ready and willing to spend $1.2 million of his own money. i just had hopes we could make it work. stanforded a addelstein will on sue. sue has travelled a rocky road since she was found. right now larson s heart is broken. he s lost his most important find and cannot even see her
kids protesting, adults protesting. it was not the sort of public relations event that, you know, law enforcement likes, because they re taking away this t. rex from a very small town that really could use it. could not have discovered this rex in a worse and potentially legally complicated place. it wasn t tribal land. it wasn t federal land. it was a really sue came out from an absolute legal netherworld. it is official, we gave the people what they wanted. the nation s strongest lte signal. this is a big deal!
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