By Laura Geggel, Senior
Writer | August 31, 2017 11:52am ET
After spending nearly 18 years in
the Field Museum's great hall in Chicago, Sue — the largest and most
complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered — will move to an exhibit
upstairs, making room for the world's largest known dinosaur: a titanosaur.
Once upstairs, Sue will be
reconnected with its gastralia, a unit of rib-like bones that stretch across
the belly. The dinosaur will also have adjustments made to its furcular
(wishbone), arms and legs, said Bill Simpson, the collections manager of fossil
vertebrates at the Field Museum.
"The gastralia [addition] is
the biggest thing, but we're also making a few other corrections to Sue,"
Simpson told Live Science.
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