When Peter Larson and his team at the Black Hills Institute discovered the world's largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton beneath a South Dakota butte in 1990, Larson knew it was the find of a lifetime. He had no way of foreseeing that "Sue," as they called the fossil, was about to plunge him down a rabbit hole into a topsyturvy world of FBI agents, government prosecutors, powerful museums, Native American tribes, and competing paleontologists. As Larson began the biggest battle of his life-to hold on to Sue and to keep himself out of prison-an amazing thing happened. He and his Black Hills team began finding more and more T. rex. Reinventing the science of paleontology and hitting paydirt again and again, Larson became a lightning rod for the controversies rocking paleontology and the envy of fellow bonehunters everywhere. Called the Indiana Jones of paleontology, Peter Larson picked up his first fossil at age four and never stopped. Founder of the world's largest independent fossil company, Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Larson's discoveries can be viewed at virtually every major natural history museum in the world.

Larson has excavated eight T. rex and hundreds of other dinosaurs Book jacket.