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We were just finishing up doing stuff, and susan comes up. and she opens her hand, and she's got two pretty small pieces of bone, only about this big, in her hand. and i'd never seen the inside of a t. rex vertebra before, but i knew exactly that was what she had in her hand, and i says, "is there more of it?" she said, "there's a lot more." so we ran, literally ran back to the site. 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 ...

A terrible, rough life. the skull of sue had actually had -- the left side of the lower jaw had been literally ripped out of the socket, still held together here at the symphysis, where the two ends of the lower jaw come together in the front, but it's been torn loose from the socket which allows the jaw to open and close. and the postorbital, the bone directly behind the eye, was broken and pulled outwards and laying at sort of a weird angle, so i think that she actually died from the attack of another tyrannosaurus rex. that was a big job. i mean, it took me a year, literally a year just to,...

Every day that it's outside is a day that it's going to destruction. we started by picking up all these thousands of fragments of bones and bagging them, labeling them. well, the plan of attack is to protect the specimen first of all, and then you go above the specimen and dig down to it so that you can get all the way around it to remove it from the cliff. we basically used these ditch-digging tools, picks and shovels, to dig down that 30 feet from where i thought we could get back into the cliff face far enough to uncover what i thought would be the limits of that skeleton. probably the hard...

>> we got back after fixing the tire, and we were at the dig site. we were just finishing up doing stuff, and susan comes up. and she opens her hand, and she's got two pretty small pieces of bone, only about this big, in her hand. and i'd never seen the inside of a t-rex vertebra before, but knew exactly that was what she had in her hand, and i says, "is there more of it?" she said, "there's a lot more." so we ran, literally ran back to the site. 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 ...

>> basically, we'd take different sections so we weren't in each other's way and just kind of worked the specimen until we could start removing bones. >> you know, and every time somebody found a bone or fragments, they just said, "the s bone." we wouldn't say, "skull." we didn't want to jinx it. >> pretty early on, i hit something hard, and so, i stopped. "it's the 's' word," i said, thinking, "i bet i hit the skull." when i got down digging and then started really working with the smaller knife, we found, as we were going down, is the back of the skull. and we're getting down, and here's thi...