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picks and shovels,
to dig down that 30 feet
from where I thought
we could get back
into the cliff face
far enough to uncover
what I thought
would be the limits
of that skeleton.
Probably the hardest work
I've ever had to do in my life.
We were doing this all
in temperatures around
It was very hard work,
but it was very easy
to put in a lot
of energy into it,
because we all wanted to see
what the skeleton
was going to look like.
Basically, we'd take
different sections
so we weren't
in each other's way
and just kind of worked
the specimen
until we could start
removing bones.
You know, and every time
somebody found a bone
or fragments,
they just said, "the S bone."
We wouldn't say, "Skull."
We didn't want to jinx it.
Pretty early on,
I hit something hard, and so,
I stopped.
"It's the 'S' word," I said,
thinking,
"I bet I hit the skull."
When I got down digging
and then started really working
with the smaller knife,
we found, as we were going down,
is the back of the skull.
And we're getting down,
and here's this skull
taking shape,
and we get out on the side,
and I put Terry to work
on cleaning
the side of the skull,
'cause he's really
our best preparator.
Pete let me work
on part of the skull
in the field,
which was amazing.
He's working and uncovering
the teeth one by one by one.
It was spectacular.
Teeth like this
just sticking
right out of the skull.
We're going, "Oh, my God.
Look at this thing.
Look how huge it is.
This has gotta be
bigger than the one
at the American Museum.
It's huge. It's wonderful."
We had started a long time ago
naming particular dinosaurs,
and the name Sue,
for Susan Hendrickson,
goes down in history,
and I think that's
a kind of a cool way
who make these discoveries.
We were all
experienced diggers.
You know, it was just
total focused effort.
We would just
work into the specimen,
remove things that we could,
protect the rest of it,
and then take it
out of the ground
and get it back
into the laboratory,
where you can have a more
controlled environment
to take care of the specimen.
The amount of new things
that we found and the amount
of scientific information
that we discovered
while finding Sue was enormous.
Beautifully preserved
articulated skull,
articulated vertebral column
up to the pelvis with the tail
and shoulder blade
and all this stuff,
and it's just like, "Holy cow."
And wonderful preservation.
Just fantastic bones
that were just
beautiful surface on them.
Every time we were ready
to take a bone out or every time
there was some new discovery,
Pete would take
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