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This person found the dinosaur skeleton
Sue Hendrickson
This is the state the team was in when looking for fossils
South Dakota
The team went to town for this reason.
flat tire
Sue carried these back to her team.
pieces of bone
Tyrannosaurus Rex means this.
tyrant lizard king
"Gypsy" is the name of ______.
Sue's dog
The skeleton was discovered in this season.
summer
Sue hiked this many miles.
seven
The team honored the discoverer by doing this.
Named the dinosaur Sue.
The weight a T-Rex can weigh
2,000-7,000 tons
The dinosaur found was named this.
Sue
The unusual weather the day the skeleton was found.
foggy
Sue walked up the cliff and saw this.
The bones of a T-rex sticking out of the cliff.
The team used these tools to chip away at the skeleton.
shovels, picks, crowbars
The full length of a T-Rex tooth.
up to 12 inches-size of a ruler
The is the company the fossil team worked for.
The year the skeleton was found.
1990
A dinosaur with hollow bones is called his.
carnivore- and Sue knew the only carnivore in the area at the time was the T-Rex.
The temperature the team worked in.
120 degrees
Dinosaur part that is the size of a refrigerator
skull
The type of dinosaur that was found.
T-rex (Tyrannosaurus Rex)
This is where the skeleton was embedded.
in a cliff
Why was this find so exciting?
This was the largest and most complete T-Rex ever found.
This had to be moved before the bones could be uncovered.
rock-30 feet of rock
Barnum Brown was_____
the first person to discover a T-Rex