The fight for Sue, the world’s biggest T-Rex fossil, with Linda Marigliano Just the Gist

In August 1990, in the badlands of South Dakota, recreational fossil hunter Susan Hendrickson stumbled across some huge fossilised bones lodged into the side of a cliff. While they spent 17 days digging the fossils out of the rock, Susan and her team of fossil hunters realised they'd unearthed the world's largest and most complete T-Rex skeleton. They named the specimen Sue, and soon a decade-long battle began over who owned the bones: the people who discovered Sue? The landowner whose property Sue was found on? The Native American tribe who were the traditional land owners? Or the American government? 

Jacob shares the story with guest host Linda Marigliano. Follow Linda on Instagram @lindamarigliano

We recommend listening to Linda's podcast 'Tough Love'. Start from the first episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/finding-peace-just-a-little-bit/id1546324192?i=1000519900961

Linda's new music podcast 'The Spin' comes out on the LiSTNR app every Friday

Skip straight to the story: approx 12:05

We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's this:

Watch the incredibly biased documentary Dinosaur 13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOjlaAcCpLc

Follow Sue on Twitter https://twitter.com/SUEtheTrex 

Get to know all the facts about Sue and what they’ve taught us about T-Rex https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/sue-t-rex 

If you want to hear more about the Bone Wars Jacob mentioned at the start of the story, listen to our episode 'The Bone Wars' from April 2021

If you want to hear more about the movie 'Theodore Rex', listen to our live show episode about it from March 2022
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