Sue is a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, found by the fossil hunter Sue Hendrickson in the badlands near Faith, South Dakota, in August 1990. It is among the largest, best-preserved and most complete T. rex skeletons ever found, with the great majority of its bones. After a legal battle over who owned it, because it had been dug up on land held in trust for a member of the Sioux tribe, the specimen was seized by the federal government and later sold at auction in 1997 for over eight million dollars. The Field Museum in Chicago bought it with the help of corporate sponsors. Studies of its bones have given information on the growth, injuries and diseases of tyrannosaurs.
Before and after
- 22 May 1990Creation of Windows 3.0
- 12 June 1990Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- 13 July 1990Founding of Central Bank of Russia
- from 2 August 1990 to 28 February 1991Gulf War
- 12 August 1990Discovery of Sue
- 15 August 1990Birth of Jennifer Lawrence
- 12 September 1990Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany
- 14 September 1990The first gene therapy treatment is given
- from 1 October 1990 to 4 August 1993Rwandan Civil War
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