
Rex appeal
by Peter L. Larson
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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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