SUE Arrives at Museum of Idaho

Giant T-Rex will be on Display from February 18 to May 26, 2003

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho -  The new Museum of Idaho received its first major exhibit when it received A T. rex Named SUE from Seattle last week.  SUE is on loan from the Field Museum in Chicago, and will be exhibited at the Museum of Idaho during its grand opening from February 18 through May 26, 2003.  Measuring 42 feet long and over 90% complete, SUE is the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever discovered.  "It is the exceptional completeness of the SUE specimen, that sets it apart," said Nick Gailey, program director for the museum.  As the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever recovered, SUE has tremendous value for scientists and the general public.

"SUE arrived in grand fashion with a police escort and sirens blasting," said Gailey.  "The public responded by stepping out onto the sidewalks and cheering as three huge orange trucks carried her through historic downtown Idaho Falls."  There was no lack of help in unloading the trucks.  A team of eighteen volunteers from BYU-Idaho and Argonne National Laboratory unloaded SUE.  Meanwhile, local news teams from all three major networks were there to film the proceedings.

The traveling exhibit features a fully mounted cast of SUE along with many other dinosaur exhibits.  SUE will be the museum's largest exhibit and will fill about a quarter of the museum's new glass-enclosed annex.  "It should be a terrific attraction and educational opportunity for children from the Intermountain region," Gailey added.  In addition to SUE, a number of other dinosaur exhibits are being loaned to the Museum of Idaho by several Utah based institutions, including the Museum of Ancient Life, BYU, DinoLabs, and Western Paleontological Laboratories.

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