# Sue's a beat-up old gal-- **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 4, 2002, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sues-a-beat-up-old-gal/135248 "2002-11-04T17:52:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2002, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sues-a-beat-up-old-gal/135248/1 "2002-11-04T17:52:51Z")
Went to see the (replica) skeleton of Sue the tyrannosaur at the Pacific Science Center yesterday. I was pretty impressed. I had seen T. rex skeletons before, at the Black Hills Institute, where they have a couple (three, maybe?) skeletons, including “Stan”. But at the Center, it was just Sue, set up in a fairly active pose, silhouetted against a white wall, and it was much more dramatic. One thing that surprised me was how beat-up she was. She had a number of broken ribs that had healed, some kind of pathological holes in her lower jaw (abscesses?), and a really messy-looking lump on her tibia that looked to my inexperienced eye like another healed break. She must have had a pretty active life, I guess, and those ribs looked like a Triceratops must have gotten in a few good licks. I wonder how she managed with a broken tibia? Did she have a mate to feed her while she healed? Or did she just suck it up and carry on as best she could?