Redden will be the auctioneer tomorrow as Sotheby's places a 65 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton up for sale. The T.rex, nicknamed "Sue," was found in South Dakota in the early 1990s and has been the subject of several disputes over ownership. The skeleton was determined to be the property of Native Lakota on whose land the bones were found. There is a bigger dispute brewing, though...over whether a private bidder might remove the bones from public study. "Sue" is the most complete T.rex fossil ever found, making the skeleton invaluable for research. Redden says that non-profit organizations may be given a break in bidding so that the skeleton would not removed from public view.
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