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everything u knoe about the dinosaur sue, tell me. and no links just facts?

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1. suzy was a carnivour,...... and was the largest of all the carnosaur family, who evolved from herbivorous theropods. Suzy,..... alias tyrannosaurus rex, was basically a towering roaming disposal unit who would virtually scoff anything within eating range. These massive muscular giants walked on 2 legs, had short necks and big heads, and what they lacked in brainpower, made up for it with XOS sized teeth. Dinosaurs are classified according to their pelvic structure. Either ornithischians or saurichians and most of them tended to be egg layers, with fossils found on every continent including antarctica. Suzy lived up until the cretaceous period, then most dinosaurs had started to disappear over 2 million years there after. Various explanations have been presented, but huge volcanic and altered mountain building cycles is said to have massively altered their habitat and prey cycles, starting the beginning of suzys end. Their descendants are still with us today though. Vultures, emus, and ostrich's,.... they're all ancestoral relatives of Big Suzy,... Tyrannosaurus Rex.
2. What??? English...do you speak it?
3. Ever visit the Museum of Natural History in NYC? No. Start there. Please........
4. A dinosaur called Sue?
5. Yeah, you wouldn't want those pesky facts getting in the way...
6. There's a dinosaur named Sue?
7. Sue is a T-rex that "resides" in Chicago at the Field Museum. Her skeleton was found intact; however, on display, a model skull is attached to the skeleton, as the real skull is too heavy (it is in a separate display case).
8. On May 17, 2000 The Field Museum unveiled Sue, the largest, most complete, and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex fossil yet discovered. Sue is a permanent feature at The Field Museum, and there is no additional charge to see her. The real thing Male or female, king or queen, no one can be sure. But of one thing there is no question: Sue rules! You may walk around her slowly. Examine the bird-like feet, the massive legs and pelvis, the surprisingly graceful tail. Stare into her bottomless eye sockets, her razor-sharp teeth and powerful jaws. No question about it: this is the real thing. Not a plastic model or a plaster cast. Not a patchwork or composite of bones from different specimens. These are the fossilized bones of the single largest, most complete, and best preserved T. rex fossil yet discovered. At a time when many museums are displaying replicas of dinosaur skeletons, The Field Museum has strengthened its commitment to authenticity. This is Sue. Sue stands 13 feet high at the hips and 42 feet long from head to tail. One of the only pieces of Sue that is not mounted is her 5-foot-long skull, which is too heavy to be placed on the steel armature that holds together her more than 200 fossilized bones. In its place, the Museum has installed a cast replica. Sue’s real skull is on display in an exhibit on the second-floor balcony overlooking Stanley Field Hall. Here, visitors can get an up-close view of Sue’s massive head, as well as some insight into the mounting process and the story of how Sue ended up at The Field Museum. In addition, visitors can view animated CT scans of the skull and touch a variety of casts of Sue’s bones, including a rib, forelimb and tooth. Sue's Vital Statistics Scientific name: Tyrannosaurus rex (From the Greek and Latin for "tyrant lizard king") Age: Late Cretaceous Period 67 million years Range: Western North America Discovered: August 12, 1990, on the Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Reservation near Faith, South Dakota, by fossil hunter Sue Hendrickson Length: 42 feet (12.8 meters) Height at hips: 13 feet (4.0 meters) Estimated live weight: 7 tons (6.4 metric tons) Weight of skull: 600 pounds (272 kg) Length of skull: 5 feet (1.5 meters) Size of brain cavity: Just big enough to hold a quart of milk Number of teeth: 58 Length of teeth: 7 1/2 to 12 inches (19.05 to 30.5 centimeters) Diet: Meat Sex: Unknown Most of Sue’s bones are in excellent condition and have a high degree of surface detail. Sixty-seven million years after her death, it is still possible to see fine details showing where muscles, tendons, and other soft tissues rested against or attached to the bone. Sue’s completeness, combined with the exquisite preservation of the bones, makes her an invaluable scientific resource, permitting highly detailed study of T. rex anatomy. The Dispute Over Sue Soon after Sue was discovered, her bones became the center of a dispute. Who owned the fossil? It took five years to sort things out. To dig up dinosaurs, you always need the landowner’s permission. But in Sue’s case it was unclear whose land it was because. . . The bones were found on land that was part of a Sioux Indian reservation, BUT. . . The land belonged to a private rancher, BUT. . . The rancher was part Sioux, and his land was held in trust by the U.S. Government. While people argued about who owned Sue, the bones were safely locked away in storerooms at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. In the end, a judge decided that Sue was held in trust by the U.S. Government for the rancher on whose property the skeleton had been found. The rancher, in turn, decided to sell Sue at public auction. On May 17, 2000 The Field Museum unveiled Sue, the most complete and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex fossil yet discovered. Sue is 42 feet (13 m) long, stands 13 feet (4 m) high at the hips and is 67 million years old. The fossil was named Sue after the paleontologist who found it — Sue Hendrickson. Sue's actual gender is unknown, although because she was named after Hendrickson, she is commonly associated with being a female.[2] Sue is a permanent feature at The Field Museum. Sue's body is located on the main floor in the Stanley Field Hall. Her head was too heavy to be mounted on the rest of the body, so it is located on a second floor balcony, although a replicate head is mounted on Sue's body. There is no additional charge to see this exhibit. Sue and her juvenile counterpart, Jane give Illinois two important Tyrannosaurus rex fossils.
9. it is a t-rex and ways 600 pounds