The world鈥檚 most complete Tyrannosaurus rex, otherwise known as
鈥淪ue鈥, fetched a record $8.4 million at Sotheby鈥檚 in New York. The
skeleton will go to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, which had
the backing of the Disney organisation and the McDonald鈥檚 burger chain.
Museum visitors will be able to watch technicians prepare the fossil in a
glass-walled lab.
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