Rex Appeal

“Riveting. A highly readable adventure story. Tough, if not impossible, for fossil fans to put down.” –The Denver Post

“Provides the personal, behind-the-scenes drama that only someone who lived it could provide. Highly recommended.” –Library Journal

“Read this book if you love adventure and tales of exploration. You’ll hear the call from the Deep Past, the rumblings from multi-ton beasts who ruled the Golden Age of Dinosaur Giants. You’ll look over the shoulder of the world’s best, most experienced tyrannosaur hunters, and your scientific imaginatino will grow powerful.” –Dr. Bob Bakker, Houston Museum of Natural History

“Here at last is the story of the man who stood in the center of the unbelievable tornado of events surrounding Sue. A well-told saga worthy of the ancient Greeks, complete with the science behind the story.” –Dr. Philip J. Currie, Professor of Paleontology, University of Alberta in Edmonton

“A riveting saga, tailor-made for the movies. Here is all the sweat and adventure of dinosaur collecting, along with fascinating scientific detective work that brings these old bones to life. Most of all, here is a gripping account of a horrific episode in American paleontology that should never be allowed to happen again.” –Niles Eldredge, American Museum of Natural History

Peter Larson has celebrated more than fifty years in business, after starting a fledgling rock business during undergraduate school. Since then, he’s created the largest private fossil company in the world, Black Hills Institute of Geologic Research. The company has placed dozens of real and cast skeletons, as well as countless other fossil specimens, in major museums and smaller collections on many continents.

Through his company, Larson also has paved the way for independent paleontologists the world over–and made headlines when the team excavated the world’s two most complete, significant T. rex skeletons, in 1990 and 1992. He knew they were the finds of a lifetime, but Larson had no way of foreseeing that “Sue” and “Stan” would plunge him down an unexpected rabbit hole–into a topsy-turvy, Alice in Wonderland world that caused him to risk everything.

Kristin Donnan, then a reporter for NBC’s Unsolved Mysteries, returned home to South Dakota to cover Larson’s struggle for Sue. She soon cut her paleo teeth at the excavation site of Stan, the rex that twenty years later would forever change paleontology; years later, she supported the production of Dinosaur 13.

Along with researching paleontology, Kristin owns an independent publishing company; writes her own feature and television screenplays; writes documentary scripts for MacGillivray Freeman Films, the world’s largest producer of giant-screen documentary films; and provides consulting services for other authors.

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