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Why is this fossil so remarkable? >> well, t-rex. owns the coke coka -- coca col dinosaurs. you want to find the largest, most impressive. this was one of the most complete t-rexes ever found to scientists. it was a big animal as well. so, sue, she was a very important find. that would illuminate so much on, on probably one of the most famous dinosaurs which we had such fragmentary remains of. it was a really important specimen. >> paleontologist, peter larson and his team, south dakota black hills excavated in 1990. she was found on private property. as word spread about the find. the dispute...

Tyrannosaurus rex. >> probably 66.5 million years old, something like that. this is a big dinosaur. this is one of the biggest. >> reporter: a dinosaur that's tentatively been sold already to a museum. we don't know the price, but what we do know is overall, prices for dinosaurs shifted seismically with the discovery of the largest t-rex fossil ever found named sue. >> it changed my entire life, my entire focus in science and changed our business, changed everything. >> reporter: larson and his black hills institute team excavated the fossil in 1990. as word spread about the historic fossil fi...

After sue sort of things i guess you might say that. >> sue, the single largest and most complete t. rex fossil ever found. larson and his team at south dakota's black hills institute excavated her in 1990. she was found on private property and as word spread about the historic fossil find, a dispute with the land owner, a native american tribe, and the federal government led to sue's seizure from larson's lab. sue was sold on the open market. when the field museum in chicago purchased her for $8 million and peter larson never saw a sent and he was sent to federal prison on custom violations u...

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...

>> 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...