Chicago's Field Museum Unveils Sue, Largest T-Rex Skeleton Ever  Found
COLLEEN MCEDWARDS, WORLD NEWS: For many, the words Tyrannosaurus Rex conjure up thoughts of "Jurassic Park" and childhood toys. A museum in Chicago has unveiled a dinosaur skeleton the likes of which had never been seen. And as CNN's Jeff Flock reports, a T-rex named Sue doesn't look bad for her age.</s>JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): What big teeth. What a long tail. What menacing claws. What a big deal. The world can now see the biggest and most complete T-rex skeleton ever unearthed by man. And the world is wasting no time.</s>DARIN CROFT, FIELD MUSEUM SCIENTIST: What's so special and different about Sue is the fact that she's so complete and so well preserved.</s>FLOCK: T-rex bones no one's ever seen before, like an ear bone, a wishbone, only the second T-rex arm ever discovered, and a cavernous system for smelling out its prey revealed by an elaborate skull scan.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I've got a bone here.</s>FLOCK: Found August 12, 1990, here in the badlands of South Dakota, sold at this auction after a custody battle for a some say obscene $8.36 million to the owner of the land where it was found.</s>PROF. KEITH RIGBY, UNIV. OF NOTRE DAME: It has triggered what amounts to a gold rush for people looking to make it similarly rich off fossil finds.</s>FLOCK: It took two years in a glassed-in lab/slash exhibit to clean and prepare the bones. Each can now be individually removed for research when needed. (on camera): What is Perhaps most compelling about the exhibit is the reality of it -- 90 percent real dinosaur bones, but still almost close enough to touch. You can literally stare into the mouth of Sue and get some sense for what's it's like to stare down tyrannosaurus rex.</s>FLOCK: Namesake Sue Hendrickson, who found the fossil, first saw its enormity at this New Jersey lab, where the mounting was designed.</s>SUE HENDRICKSON, FOSSIL HUNTER: I don't understand how a 67 million-year-old dead dinosaur could call me, but I think somehow -- I just -- I can't explain it.</s>FLOCK: It -- they still don't know if it's boy or girl -- now calls academics and the curious to Chicago, promising to reveal part of the history of a prehistoric world. I'm Jeff Flock, CNN, at the Field Museum in Chicago.