Interesting legal battles have arisen over the ownership of "Sue", the T-Rex dinosaur that is on display in the Chicago Field Museum. Commercial fossil hunters found it and paid a landowner to excavate it from land that is an inholding within a Sioux Reservation. The fossil hunters, land owner, tribe and United States government all claimed ownership of this fossil that is worth over $8,000,000.
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Labels: Fossils
