KETC | Living St. Louis | T-Rex

From KETC, LIVING ST. LOUIS Producer Anne-Marie Berger gets an up close look at Sue the T-Rex, a model of one of the most well-preserved tyrannosaurs rex fossils ever discovered. An exhibit from the Field Museum in Chicago, Sue is on display at the St. Louis Science Center through April 2009. The model, made from a mold of the actual bones, is 42 feet long and 12 feet high. When alive, Sue would have weighted over 7 tons. Sue, discovered in North Dakota by paleontologist Sue Hendrickson in 1990, has helped scientist gain much insight about T-Rex.

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[supersmash43]

@farinango I am guessing this is a replica of the skeleton? No way they would be transporting so many fragile bones around.

[hanxopx]

true

[farinango]

Sue skull is 4.7 ft 2 inch. more than the average of 4.5ft so that why Sue 42.7 ft long and not 40ft so there is a skul of rex that is 5 ft long or 1.52m this skull have 3inch more than Sue skul so one inch become a ft becoming 4ft so 42.7+4ft = 46.8 ft

[fossilpreparator]

Thank you faithsd! I was posting to say the same exact thing.  And she is THE most complete T-rex ever found! Not ONE OF THE. And the holes in the lower jaw are NOT bite marks. They're the result of a reptilian bacterial infection.

[faithsd]

She was found near Faith, South Dakota Not North Dakota..