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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 rancher's land but under an indian trust land. >> here you are. let's take this group and it's your first day at work with the federal government happens to be the day that sue, this t-rex is confiscated. do you thi...

Investigation is not captured within the film "dinosaur 13" so we thank cnn for the opportunity to share a couple of thoughts. it's 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 hills institute in 1985. and i think it's sort of key because the t-rex wasn't even found until 1998...

It's a day that, you know, it's 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. i've heard they found it. the government took it. well, perhaps they tight and the government returned it to the owner and that's a big part of the story that we don't always hear. there's different sides to the story. >> well, i guess, though, ultimately if some of these paleontologists had their way they would have had it in south dakota and ultimately it's in this big beautiful museum in chicag...

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 didn't know what they were doing. these people didn't 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 that fossil won't go anywhere. it's not like it's going to disappear in a brief case. >> that requ...

When they discovered the most complete skeleton of t-rex ever found. here's 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 didn't even think about it. i grabbed a tape. i went to the specimen. that was my concern. i could just see these idiots start to pack up my dinosaur and take it away and ruin it. how dare they. how dar...