By Ryan Mitchel Collins
Staff Writer 

Archaeologist presentation highlights first day of Dinosaur Center celebration

 

Ryan Mitchel Collins

Peter Larson shows a slide during his presentation Thursday evening at the Thermopolis High School Auditorium. Larson was one of four speakers during the Wyoming Dinosaur Center's 20th anniversary celebration. Larson is most famous for his work on the excavation of the biggest and most complete fossil of a T-Rex.

THERMOPOLIS-When "Sue" the Tyrannosaurus Rex was discovered in 1990 by Sue Hendrickson on a commercial fossil hunting trip near Faith, S.D., Peter Larson was with Hendrickson for what would become the discovery of a lifetime.

Hendrickson had stumbled upon the largest fully intact Tyrannosaurus rex in history. Hendrickson was part of an excavation team lead by Larson, president of the Black Hil...



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