As a child, Sue Hendrickson loved to look for buried treasure. She would also walk along streets, looking at the ground and hoping to find interesting things.
One day, Hendrickson visited an amber mine. One piece of amber had an insect in it, and a miner told her that it was 23 million years old. At that moment, Hendrickson knew that she wanted to search for fossils (化石)．
In 1990, she traveled to South Dakota with a team of scientists looking for dinosaur bones. The team's car broke down. When the others went to get the car fixed, Hendrickson and her dog stayed behind and went for a walk. On her walk, Hendrickson saw some bones on the ground and then looked up. There, in the high area of rock, was a huge dinosaur skeleton (骨骼)! The group uncovered the biggest, most complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex (霸王龙) that had ever been found. The T. rex was named “Sue” after its discoverer.
