Field Museum

This guide to the Field Museum in Chicago follows Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found, from its 1990 discovery on a South Dakota reservation by fossil hunter Sue Hendrickson to the morning in 1992 when more than thirty FBI agents and National Guard soldiers arrived at the dig to seize it as evidence. A five-thousand-dollar handshake with a rancher is what set the federal case in motion. Take a slow lap around the skull before you move on to the rest of the hall.