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A new study shows that Sue, the Field Museum's mighty T-Rex, may have been felled by something not so mighty, more War of the Worlds than Jurrasic Park: a parasite. The Tribune fills us in on the details, deduced from holes in Sue's jaws.

What happens when a dinosaur gets mounted in a museum? Well, it gets taken out of the ground, cleaned with brushes and dental drills, inventoried and arranged. Fiberglass molds are made, it gets fitted with metal rods for support and, eventually, it’s put on public display with great fanfare and probably some wine and cheese. But then what? It sits there. For years and years and years.