It's not everyday you see this going down the interstate. We could have some fun and make up a story about where it's going or where it came from. It's probably going to or from a miniature golf place but I think it might be more fun to say it's an inheritance item, a treasured yard ornament that is being passed on to a family member or friend who has promised to prominently display it in the front yard just outside a window where it can greet you every morning when you open the curtains. Or perhaps it is going to be set up in the living room in a corner and during the winter holidays it will sport a red and white faux fur stocking cap or be wrapped with sparkling lights. It could be fun.
And on a more serious note, I loved that an amateur paleontologist, Sue Hendrickson, discovered the most complete skeleton, and the largest, in 1990 at the Hell Creek Formation. It's named after her - Sue - and is now in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. We saw it last July. Museum staff spent 25,000 hours taking rock off Sue's bones then shipped them all to New Jersey where it was put together then shipped back to Chicago. I wonder where they put it together in New Jersey?
Paleontologist say Sue was full grown at the age of 19 and died at 28, living the longest of any tyrannosaur known so far. Go Sue.
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