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In this Monday, Feb. 5, 2018, photo, Garth Dallman, center, and Bill Kouchie, right, both from the dinosaur restoration firm Research Casting International, Ltd., begin the of dismantling Sue, the Tyrannosaurus rex, on display at Chicago’s Field Museum in preparation to move the towering display to a new exhibit and bring in a cast of an even larger dinosaur. Sue will appear in a new exhibition space in 2019, in a second-floor gallery.
Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018 | 12:05 a.m.
CHICAGO — The largest Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found is ready to go back on display at Chicago's Field Museum in a new exhibition space.
The skeleton named Sue (after her discoverer, Sue Hendrickson) is now in a second-floor gallery near other dinosaurs. It opens to the public Friday.
The Chicago Tribune reports the 40.5-foot skeleton shares the gallery with the skull of a triceratops and dozens of plant and animal fossils from Sue's era.
Peter Makovicky, the museum's curator of dinosaurs, says the second floor gallery was always intended to be Sue's home, but it ended up near the main north door of the museum before being disassembled earlier this year. That space is now filled by a 122-foot-long cast skeleton of a titanosaur.
