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The incredible story of and the discovery of and the fight over the largest and most complete t-rex skeleton ever found. the dinosaur that would be named sue is now on display at a chicago museum. it was found in 1990 preserved for 67 million years in what is now south dakota and then two years later, the fbi and the national guard seized the skeleton, setting off a battle over sue that has documented in its film, dinosaur 13. in a moment, speak to the paleontologists and in a clip from the film...

>> my reaction was relief that thats the best place, where the public and scientific community will have access to it. >> i think its probably the second best place she could have been. its going to go where millions of people would see her. shes not going to be in prison anymore. sue is free. and people can see her and they can get the same excitement that i have for her, and they can love her just like i do. >> to me, the dinosaur still belongs in hill city. hes the guy who can go out and find...

From our area, sam adelstein, really wanted to help get sue back to south dakota. >> in visiting with pete, i was fascinated with the possibility that wed have this fantastic dinosaur back in the state where she belonged. >> stan came ready and willing to spend $1.2 million of his own money. >> i just had hopes we could make it work. >> stanford adelstein will bid on sue. >> sue has travelled a rocky road since she was found. >> right now larsons heart is broken. hes lost his most important find...

It is clearly a violation under the antiquities act to remove antiquities from united states lands without the permission of the united states. >> the federal government doesnt show up with the national guard and an assistant, or pardon me, an acting united states attorney in pancake make-up with the intention of working things out somewhere down the road. >> after we got over the initial shock, those of us who were packing the dinosaur kind of went into our packing mode, but towards the end of ...

And of course, the centerpiece of it all was that astonishing skull. absolutely amazing. >> kristen and stan adelstein are there. theyre going to try to buy the dinosaur for us. and terry winston is there, the guy who fought for this dinosaur forever. susan hendricks is there. everybodys anticipating this auction. and im thinking, we have a chance, we have a chance. sothebys had arranged for one of the people who normally would be taking bids to give me a running detail on the telephone about ...

Just like proud papas. they would inform you. they would go do classes at school for the kids, so it was very educational for all of us, and i learned a lot from that. >> ever since we created that little museum on our parents ranch, its always been our dream to have a museum here in hill city. and finding sue the tyrannosaurus rex, heres the anchor for the museum. the whole town is behind us. its going to put hill city on the map in a way that its never been on the map before. >> didnt matter h...

Owned it. >> mr. williams. >> pete and neal had made a deal with maurice williams for $5,000. on that saturday, the day before we finished getting sue out of the ground, that we gave maurice williams a check for $5,000, that said for "theropod sue" on the bottom of the check. even though $5,000 may not seem like a lot, it was a lot of money for our company to spend, and no one had ever paid that much for an undiscovered fossil before. we had lots of conversations with maurice williams about what...

>> now want to turn to a big story, really big story about sue, most complete t-rex fossil ever. and the battle that followed her discovery. sues story is subject of cnn films, dinosaur 13. joining me now, one of the scientists from the film, dr. phillip manning, head of the group at university of manchester and professor of natural history. quite a long, important title. how did you first hear about sue, the single largest most complete t-rex fossil ever found. >> good evening, well i think eve...

You, thank you for coming into new day. another legal battle, fossil fight, the largest t-rex skeleton ever uncovered named sue. just the beginning of the story. why did the find of a lifetime, trigger a lifetime of conflict? thats the premise of "dinosaur 13" a cnn film. well take you through it.

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