An amber hunter named Sue Hendrickson, working with the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, a company that collects and prepares fossils, had wandered off to explore a bluff as her crew changed a flat tire, and came back with a handful of dinosaur.

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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.

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