Sue was found in 1990 in South Dakota by the seasoned fossil hunter Peter Larson and his then companion Susan Hendrickson (for whom Sue was named) on private land belonging to a farmer named Maurice Williams.

FORBES: Magazine Article

At the Denver fossil show, in September, I stopped by the booth of Mike Triebold, a veteran Colorado hunter who has been working with the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists to find a way for academics and legitimate commercial hunters to collaborate.

NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention

Today in the United States, only approved researchers may collect vertebrates on public land, but a hunter who finds a fossil on his property, or on private land where he has permission to dig, can sell it, exhibit it, export it whatever.

NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention