‘Dinosaur 13’ details custody battle for largest T. rex
Documentary tells story of dinosaur skeleton nicknamed Sue and who owns her
By Meghan Rosen
Dinosaur 13
Todd Douglas Miller
Lionsgate 2014
The morning of August 12, 1990, didn’t seem like a good one for fossil hunting. Thick fog clung to the South Dakota prairie where Peter Larson and other collectors had been digging for dinosaur bones, and their ’75 Suburban had a flat tire.
But while Larson fixed the truck, Susan Hendrickson hiked through the murk and struck dino gold. There, embedded in the side of a cliff, she found a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton — the biggest, most complete specimen ever discovered.