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T-Rex Crossing, South Dakota, 1998

"We call it 'where the rexs roamed,'" says field paleontologist Sue Hendrickson, describing South Dakota's badlands, an area so rich in Tyrannosaurus rex fossils that friends posted a playful sign."

—From "A Dinosaur Named Sue," June 1999, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Ira Block