To all the aspiring paleontologists out there! This documentary is for you! Dinosaur 13 tells the interesting story of how the largest and most complete T-Rex skeleton was ever found, and how it all went to hell when a ten-year battle among the US Government, the various museums, the Native American Tribes and the paleontologists began.
Sue (named thus, in honor of Susan Hndrickson, the excavating volunteer who found the fossil in 1990) is the 13th Tyrannosaurus Rex that was found and is also the largest and the most complete (by 80%). It was an amazing discovery for the paleontologists who found it and started examining it. The discovery even drew the press's attention, but it all soon changed. Suddenly FBI agents were everywhere in the paleontologists' working area, a "custody battle" began and everyone was trying to get something out of it. The land owner where the dinosaur was found wanted more money while the Government found this as an excuse to fight fossil theft, transportation of stolen property, wire fraud and money laundering. All the paleontologists wanted, though, was the right to keep working on the skeleton.
The documentary may sound interesting and it truly is but somewhere along the middle you realise that its topic doesn't need to take such big dimensions and because of this, it doesn't keep your attention drawn. It tells an interesting story though, one that you wouldn't mind reading an article or watching a short documentary about.
The documentary may sound interesting and it truly is but somewhere along the middle you realise that its topic doesn't need to take such big dimensions and because of this, it doesn't keep your attention drawn. It tells an interesting story though, one that you wouldn't mind reading an article or watching a short documentary about.
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