Rex appeal

Rex appeal

by Peter 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 and his Black Mills team began finding more and more T. rex. Reinventing the science of paleontology and hitting paydirt again and again, Larson became a lightning rod for the controversies rocking paleontology and the envy of fellow bonehunters everywhere."--BOOK JACKET.

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    How does the discovery of Sue challenge the romanticized public image of paleontology as a quiet, academic pursuit, and what surprised you most about the cutthroat nature of the "bone wars"?

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    Peter Larson describes feeling an almost spiritual connection to the fossils he unearths; how do you balance the scientific value of a fossil with the emotional and passionate attachment of the person who finds it?

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    The legal battle over Sue involved an intricate web of federal agents, private landowners, tribal politics, and powerful institutions; if you were a mediator in 1990, how would you have weighed the competing claims to ownership of such a monumental scientific discovery?

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