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Clayton figures if there are that many valuable fossils on the neighbor's land, this must be as many on his. could they help him keep his home on the range. >> i started watching and picking up fragments lear and there and learning more about it. i got excited this stuff is everywhere. jamie: because phipps ranch sitso hell creek mor formation. this was a forest where giant ruled earth, peter larson runs the black hills institute, they prepare foes ill -- fossils for museums and collectors. >> the giant asteroid, 6 miles across, crashed into earth,

Comes back and when people see the movie, they'll see the wonderful people that surrounded us in hill city and tried to help to do everything they could. and the kids and all they gave to try to keep that dinosaur in hill city. all of that is a part of my life and it's a part of my life that i cherish. you know, it really made the human being i am today and it's not ending. it's still continuing. >> it is a remarkable, remarkable story and a remarkable film. peter larson, kristin donna, thank you so much. >> thank you for having us. >> thank you so much. >> stay tuned to the top of the hour fo...

There and to the world? it only counts if it's hard. >> and this was hard. peter, you're still out there searching for dinosaurs. >> yep. >> do you think it's possible, every time you look around a bend, every time you dust off an area, do you think that maybe there's the next sue? >> well, since sue, we've collected nine more t-rex specimens. none as complete as sue, but there's a chance. it's a really slim chance because sue is such an awesome dinosaur and, you know, by far the most complete. but there's a chance we might find another sue. >> you said something interesting before. you said i...

By fours. i got up there with all these materials and took me over to this big cliff and he said, take a look. i looked at it and looked at him and said, is that t-rex? he said, yes. and i think it's all here. >> joining me are peter larson, the paleontologist who found the t-rex and ex-wife, kristin donin. they wrote a book about the experience. peter, it's been 20 years since that moment. but it's still got to be emotional to see that. >> it was truly the high point of my life being part of that team that dug up this wonderful dinosaur. it's the biggest, best most complete t-rex that's been ...

>> 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. sue's 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 every paleontologist in the world when they heard rumors of a remarkable fossil discovered in the badl...