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Sue, largest T. rex skeleton ever found, making a move
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In this Monday, Feb. 5, 2018, photo, Garth Dallman, center, and Bill Kouchie, right, both from the dinosaur restoration firm Research Casting International, Ltd., begin the of dismantling Sue, the Tyrannosaurus rex, on display at Chicago's Field Museum in preparation to move the towering display to a new exhibit and bring in a cast of an even larger dinosaur. Sue will appear in a new exhibition space in 2019, in a second-floor gallery.
CHICAGO — The largest Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found is on the move.
Chicago's Field Museum began dismantling the skeleton named Sue on Monday. Crews are preparing to move the display to a new exhibit and bring in a cast of an even larger dinosaur.
Sue has been in the spacious Stanley Field Hall since 2000. Sue's handler, Bill Simpson, says that despite being the largest T. rex ever found, Sue looks puny beneath the 70-foot-high ceiling in the museum's main hall.
Simpson says Sue will appear in a new exhibition space in 2019, in a second-floor gallery, where it'll look better.
Sue is making way for a cast of a titanosaur, a plant-eating dinosaur that's three times the length of the T. rex. Its neck will stretch up to the second-floor balcony level.
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