{"id":6548,"date":"2026-08-12T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6548"},"modified":"2025-12-15T19:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T00:40:13","slug":"sue-was-discovered-in-south-dakota-in-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6548","title":{"rendered":"Sue Was Discovered in South Dakota in 1990"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7059 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Sues_skeleton-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"Sues_skeleton\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" \/>Sue, the largest and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex fossil skeleton, was discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota in 1990<\/strong>. Sue is 42 feet long and probably weighed 6.4 tons when alive. After a dispute over ownership was solved, she was sold to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. Children could learn more at the Museum\u2019s website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.fieldmuseum.org\/sue\/#photo-gallery-revealing-sue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sue<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sue, the largest and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex fossil skeleton, was discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota in 1990. Sue is 42 feet long and probably weighed 6.4 tons when alive. After a dispute over ownership was solved, she was sold to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. Children could learn more <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6548' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4681,5779,1121,1120,1117,1119,1115,1118,1116],"class_list":["post-6548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4681","tag-august-12","tag-chicago","tag-field-museum-of-natural-history","tag-fossil-skeleton","tag-south-dakota","tag-sue","tag-sue-hendrickson","tag-tyrannosaurus-rex","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6548"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29625,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548\/revisions\/29625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}