The world’s most complete Tyrannosaurus rex, otherwise known as
“Sue”, fetched a record $8.4 million at Sotheby’s in New York. The
skeleton will go to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, which had
the backing of the Disney organisation and the McDonald’s burger chain.
Museum visitors will be able to watch technicians prepare the fossil in a
glass-walled lab.
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