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PODCAST. After its discovery on an Indian reservation, the dinosaur is the subject of a bitter legal battle between the paleontologist and the owner of the land.
By Frederic Lewino and Gwendoline Dos Santos
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Sue languished for 67 million years underground before she saw the light again. This is an imposing female Tyrannosaurus rex. With her long teeth as sharp as sabers, she would have cut an elephant into carpaccio for you in fifteen seconds. During his lifetime, he was an indefatigable war machine, one of the most efficient ever created by nature. However, this did not prevent her from dying, drowned in a river. Sediments have accumulated on it over the centuries, protecting it from the aggressions of time. And one fine day, like Sleeping Beauty, a prince came to wake her up. Or rather, a princess.
Here is the story: during the month of August 1990, a team of paleontologists searched for fossils on the land of a half-breed Indian…
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