Sue the T. rex - Animal Kingdom, Disney World, FL - Exact Replicas on Waymarking.com

From the nearby plaque:
"This fossil cast is an exact relpica of "Sue," the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found. Named for her discoverer Susan Hendrickson, Sue was found in South Dakota on August 12, 1990. Sue is 90% complete, a fossil find of enormous importance to the study of dinosaurs.

During her lifetime in the Late Cretaceous Period (67-65 million years ago) Sue weighed seven tons and measured 42 feet in length, making her the largest T. rex yet discovered."

Sue was uncovered in 1990 at the Cheyenne River Sioux indian reservation, near Faith, SD. When Pete Larson and his team at the Black Hills Institute began extracting the fossil, they nicknamed it "Sue", after its discoverer. In 1997, Sue became the center of a media circus which called the rightful ownership of the specimen into question. Eventually Sue was put up for auction at Sotheby's and sold for $8.36 million. The winners were the Chicago Field Museum, Disney, and McDonald's and the price marked Sue as the most expensive dinosaur ever.

Where is original located?: Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago Where is this replica located?: Animal Kingdom in Disney World, FL Who created the original?: Nature? Internet Link about Original: http://www.fieldmuseum.org/sue/index.html Year Original was Created (approx. ok): 67-65 million years B.C.

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