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Why call a dinosaur Sue?

In the summer of 1990, Sue Hendrickson was working as a fossil hunter at a dig site near Faith, South Dakota. Early on the morning of August 12, the team discovered their truck had a flat tyre. While most of them went into town to get it fixed and to take a short break from the heat, Sue stayed behind to look for fossils.

She hiked over to some sandstone bluffs nearby. Within minutes she spotted some bone fragments on the ground. She scanned the cliffs above to find out where the fragments had fallen from and saw dinosaur bones &endash; big ones.

She climbed up the cliff for a better look at the bones, and saw they were huge.She thought she had found a T. rex, and when the team returned, they agreed and named it "Sue" in her honour.
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