SUE the Dinosaur Gets Her Very Own Digs…Finally

Sue, the Field Museum’s well-known Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, is dusted while on display on May 12, 2010.
Sue, the Field Museum's well-known Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, is dusted while on display on May 12, 2010. Kiichiro Sato / Associated Press
Sue, the Field Museum’s well-known Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, is dusted while on display on May 12, 2010.
Sue, the Field Museum's well-known Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, is dusted while on display on May 12, 2010. Kiichiro Sato / Associated Press

SUE the Dinosaur Gets Her Very Own Digs…Finally

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Visitors come from around the world to The Field Museum to see SUE, the largest, oldest known T. Rex discovered. But she making a move. In 2019 she’ll be in her very own exhibit hall to make way for the Patagotitan Mayorum, a bigger dinosaur. We talk to Peter Makovicky from the Field Museum about this new species, and the logistics of moving a dinosaur works.