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Importance of her scientifically. >> as the most complete t rex, she's 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. we'll all with watching "dinosaur 13." >> i can't wait. you do have the best assignment of the day. thank you to both of you. >> i do. >> watch "dinosaur 13" tonight >> watch "dinosaur 13" tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com breaking news. al...

He said yes. i think it's all here. >> we haven't 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. there's 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 we're 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 fossil in 1990. the government took it after this lengthy legal back and forth. the dinosaur hunter i...

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 i'm absolutely certain this is going to be the best thing we ever found and it's going to be a complete t-rex. >> he called up and said, kne...

>> 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? >> it's like ecstasy. it's pure joy. >> he can't 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 cool. this is a big dinosaur. this is one of the biggest. >> as we talk about murray, it's another n...

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 it's 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 investigation of the sue case. welcome. >> thank you. >> what's the government's argument here? >> well, ...