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" Tyrannosaurus Sue : "
Steve Fiffer ; foreword by Robert T. Bakker.
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BL
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1044023
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b798393
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| Main Entry
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Fiffer, Steve.
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| Title & Author
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Tyrannosaurus Sue : : the extraordinary saga of the largest, most fought over T. rex ever found /\ Steve Fiffer ; foreword by Robert T. Bakker.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: W.H. Freeman,, 2000.
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xvi, 248 pages ;; 25 cm
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0716735121
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: 0716740176
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: 0716794624
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: 9780716735120
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: 9780716740179
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: 9780716794622
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| Notes
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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It must be a T. rex -- Never, ever for sale -- You better get out here, Pete -- Taking a howitzer to a fly -- Who owns Sue? -- Is a dinosaur "land"? -- Jurassic farce -- You can indict a ham sandwich -- Negotiations are under way -- They're not crimes -- I kept waiting for something to happen -- Everything changed that day -- You may approach her majesty.
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| Abstract
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Over 65 million years ago in what is now Cheyenne River Sioux territory in South Dakota, a Tyrannosaurus rex matriarch locked in a ferocious battle fell mortally wounded. In 1990, her skeleton was found, virtually complete, in what many call the most spectacular dinosaur fossil discovery to date. And then another battle began--a free-for-all involving commercial dinosaur hunters, gun-toting law officers, an ambitious federal prosecutor, a Native American tribe, jealous academics, an enterprising auction house, major museums, and corporate giants. At stake: not just Sue's wealth of scientific riches, but her grant-drawing power and vast commercial potential as well. Sue is not just another dinosaur, and this is not just another dinosaur book. It is an introduction to the centuries-old history of commercial fossil hunting, a legal thriller, and a provocative look at academic versus commercial science and the chase for the money that fuels both.--From publisher description.
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Larson, Peter L.
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Larson, Peter L.
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Paleontology-- South Dakota-- History-- 20th century.
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Tyrannosaurus rex-- South Dakota.
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Paleontology.
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Tyrannosaurus rex.
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Paleozoölogie.
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Tyrannosaurussen.
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South Dakota.
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| Dewey Classification
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567.912/9/09783
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| LC Classification
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QE862.S3F54 2000
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38.22bcl
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