Stubby Arms, A Big Bite, and Lots of Controversy: The Story Behind Uncovering ‘Sue’ the Tyrannosaurus Rex

Award-winning filmmaker Todd Miller and paleontologist Peter Larson discuss the film Dinosaur 13. Larson’s team, from South Dakota’s Black Hills Institute, made one of the world’s greatest dinosaur discoveries in 1990, the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton ever found. But controversy quickly ensued. Academic paleontologists were outraged that a historic find would be planned for exhibition at a commercial facility (the Black Hills Institute), Native American communities filed complaints that the find was improperly removed from land that belonged to them, and the federal government got involved. Dinosaur 13 premiers on CNN December 11 at 9:00pm and 11:00pm ET.