New documentary tells the story of Sue the T.rex and the troubles that followed her discovery Updated: August 14, 2014 7:19PM Once married, former journalist Kristin Donnan and paleontologist Peter Larson have maintained a healthy dynamic. Her “boyfriend,” Stan, lives in Hill City, S.D. His “best gal,” Sue, resides in Chicago. Instead of driving them apart, however, those relationships bring them closer together. It helps immeasurably, of course, that Stan and Sue are Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils. The former is on display at a museum run by the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, of which Larson is president. The latter — acquired at auction for a whopping $8.36 million after its much-publicized 1992 seizure by the U.S. government — has wowed crowds at the Field Museum of Natural History for 14 years. It is also the subject of a 2002 book Donnan and Larson co-wrote, “Rex Appeal: The Amazing Story of Sue, the Dinosaur That Changed Science, the Law, and My Life,” on which the new documentary “Dinosaur 13” (it begins a two-week run Friday at the Siskel Film Center, among other locations around town, and is also available On Demand) is partly based. An update of “Rex Appeal” is under way. Larson, who with his colleagues and institute was slapped with an array of criminal [...] ilinnews/new-documentary-tells-the-story-of-sue-the-t-rex-and-the-troubles-that-followed-her-discovery-3/
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