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On October 4, 1997, the auction began at US$500,000; less than ten minutes later, the Field Museum had purchased the remains with the highest bid of US$7.6 million, which eclipsed bids made on behalf of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. The final cost was US$8,362,500.
September 5, 1975. The Field Museum of Natural History ( FMNH ), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. [4] The museum is popular for the size and quality of its educational and scientific programs, [5] [6] and its extensive scientific specimen and ...
The bones were cleaned and assembled in a mount at Black Hills Institute's installations, with the help of both Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History and the Naturalis Museum in Leiden. Chicago's Field museum sent digital models of their famous specimen, FMNH PR 2081 (Sue) to complete the cast and Naturalis museum replicated the bones using ...
Eventually, in May 2000, Sue's skeleton went on display at the Field Museum. This discovery was huge for the world of discovery and dinosaur bone excavation, marking Sue as a monumental icon in ...
Perhaps the largest-known Tyrannosaurus, a specimen named Sue at the Field Museum in Chicago, is 40-1/2 feet (12.3 meters) long. This individual lived about 67 million years ago, near the ...
The Field Museum has added a new fossil to its collection, calling it the museum’s most important fossil acquisition since Sue the T. rex. An Archaeopteryx, it has feathers, hollow bones, a long ...
In May 1992, the remains of "Sue" were seized from the BHI by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and were auctioned off five years later to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois for US$7.6 million – the highest price ever paid for a fossil at the time.
English: Sue, the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered, at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. Taken from second floor of the museum. Taken from second floor of the museum. Deutsch: „Sue“ im Chicagoer Field Museum.