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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.
- 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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