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Importance of her scientifically. >> as the most complete t rex, shes like the row set that stone. >> amazing to be with her. thank you so much. i get to hang out with sue all day, carol. her story is absolutely fascinating, named after the woman who found her. you can see it tonight 9:00 p.m. eastern only on cnn. well all with watching "dinosaur 13." >> i cant wait. you do have the best assignment of the day. thank you to both of you. >> i do. >> watch "dinosaur 13" tonight >> watch "dinosaur 1...

He said yes. i think its all here. >> we havent started digging or moved anything around yet. we have just been looking at it and taking some pictures and trying to figure out how to proceed. theres a real mass of bones here. most appear to be excellently preserved and i believe the tail is going that way and the skull is going this way. but were just going to have to dig it up and see. >> one of the people you just saw there, peter larson, he and his team were thrilled when they found the fossi...

This whole thing started as an historic scientific discovery and ended with 18 months in prison. this weekend cnn presents "dinosaur 13." it was discovered in the most complete t-rex ever found and possibly the most controversial because of where it was found. i want you to see how excited these two brothers were when they realized how spectacular this fossil was. >> i crawl up on the cliff face and i see three articulated vertebrae and from that point on im absolutely certain this is going to b...

>> follow peter larson and you step back in time. >> this is one of the very coolest things. this is the skull of this t. rex. >> an 8 ton more than 66 million-year-old fossil dubbed murray. incredibly the tenth one larson has collected. when you find an intact skull, what does that mean? >> its like ecstasy. its pure joy. >> he cant contain it. >> back here we have more interesting things to look at. the outside of a vertebra. this is filled with pieces of skin. before we go, this is really coo...

It took me a day to get everything ready and i got up there with all these materials and he took me over to this big cliff and he said "take a look." and i looked at him, i looked at him and i said "is that t-rex?" and he said "yes, and i think its all here." >> that story does not end here. the dinosaur known as sue became the object of a tug-of-war. the paleontologist and senior geologist with the national park service joins us now. he appears in the film and was involved in the federal invest...

Over the ownership of the dinosaur. now w-the bureau of land management fossils that are found on public lands bureau of land management, u.s. forest service lands, national park service lands, those fossils can only be collected with a permit an then once someone clebts that fossil it has to go a public museum where it remains in trust for the american public. this fossil was on a ranchers land but under an indian trust land. >> here you are. lets take this group and its your first day at work ...

Investigation is not captured within the film "dinosaur 13" so we thank cnn for the opportunity to share a couple of thoughts. its a very complicated story u. i congratulate todd miller and his production staff for taking on this controversial but this important historical, legal and scientific story. one of the thins i think worth knowsing is that at 54 minutes into the film todd miller, the producer, was able to put in a caption that said that national park service began to investigate black h...

Its a day that, you know, its a big day in palenotology. i was told by my supervisor check out the news tonight and wow what a day that was. so the federal government, though, was asked to step in. ive heard they found it. the government took it. well, perhaps they tight and the government returned it to the owner and thats a big part of the story that we dont always hear. theres different sides to the story. >> well, i guess, though, ultimately if some of these paleontologists had their way the...

United states of america, in a free country. >> in order to ensure this dinosaur could be carefully packed up, we helped. >> it was pretty clear they didnt know what they were doing. these people didnt know anything. i mean most of these guys hardly go out in the field at all. what do they know about preparing a fossil or packing it or anything. >> the lar sons were trying to do a little bit negotiating, puts you under lock and key at our place to prevent damage. >> i said, you just tell me and ...

When they discovered the most complete skeleton of t-rex ever found. heres the but. it quickly turned into misery when the federal government swooped in to seize the fossil and accused the team of a criminal conspiracy. this week cnn delves into the story. >> somebody called me and said fbi has crime scene around the site. i went down to the institute. they had 30 some people. it was insane. i didnt even think about it. i grabbed a tape. i went to the specimen. that was my concern. i could just ...