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Rex appealPeter L. Larson

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"When Peter Larson and his team at the Black Hills Institute discovered the world's largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton beneath a South Dakota butte in 1990, Larson knew it was the find of a lifetime. He had no way of foreseeing that "Sue," as they called the fossil, was about to plunge him down a rabbit hole into a topsy-turvy world of FBI agents, government prosecutors, powerful museums, Native American tribes, and competing paleontologists. As Larson began the biggest battle of his life - to hold on to Sue and to keep himself out of prison - an amazing thing happened. He…

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  • Hardcover · English · 2002
    Invisible Cities Press · 404 pages · 9781931229074
PaleontologistsPaleontologyTyrannosaurus rexBiographyHistoryDinosaursPaleontology, united states