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Tyrannosaurus Sue : the extraordinary saga of the largest, most fought over T. rex ever found / Steve Fiffer ; foreword by Robert T. Bakker.

Van Pelt Library QE862.S3 F54 2000
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Fiffer, Steve.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Tyrannosaurus rex--South Dakota.
Tyrannosaurus rex.
Paleontology--South Dakota--History--20th century.
Paleontology.
Larson, Peter.
History.
South Dakota.
Physical Description:
xvi, 248 pages ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : W.H. Freeman, 2000.
Summary:
Visionaries who are producing amazing breakthroughs in a "new wave" of science are profiled: geneticist Craig Ventner, neuroscientist Susan Greenfield, astronomer Geoff Marcy, immunologist Polly Matzinger, astronomer Saul Perlmutter, ecologist Gretchen Daily, and microbiologists Norman Pace and Carl Woese.
Contents:
1 It Must be A T. Rex 5
2 Never, Ever for Sale 27
3 You Better Get Out Here, Pete 47
4 Taking a Howitzer to a Fly 65
5 Who Owns Sue? 89
6 Is a Dinosaur "Land"? 107
7 Jurassic Farce 121
8 You can Indict a Ham Sandwich 137
9 Negotiations Are Under Way 151
10 They're Not Crimes 161
11 I Kept Waiting for Something to Happen 183
12 Everything Changed that Day 195
13 You May Approach Her Majesty 213.
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
0716735121
0716740176
OCLC:
43555249

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