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Science 8 September 2000:
Vol. 289. no. 5485, pp. 1695 - 1696
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5485.1695
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Fossils, G-Men, Money, and Museums

A review by John Pojeta, Jr.

Tyrannosaurus Sue The Extraordinary Saga of the Largest, Most Fought Over T. rex Ever Found
by Steve Fiffer
Freeman, New York, 2000. 248 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-7167-4017-6.

Fiffer offers a lively account of the 20th-century bone war that culminated with a record-breaking auction for a fossil. The competing factions included commercial fossil hunters, an ambitious prosecutor, armed law enforcement officers, a Native American tribe, academics, major museums, and corporate giants.
The author is with the U.S. Geological Survey at the Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA. E-mail: pojeta.john{at}nmnh.si.edu

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