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It took a long time for the museum people to get the bones ready for display. Each of the 200 plus bones had to be prepared by a team of skilled technicians. |
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It took a long time for the museum people to get the bones ready for display. Each of the 200 plus bones had to be prepared by a team of skilled technicians. |
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Each fossilized bone was carefully removed from the rock that surrounded it, and the bones were cleaned and repaired.
Workers spent more than 25,000 hours preparing Sue's bones -- 3,500 hours were spent on the skull alone. That would take one person working on their own fifteen years!