“Dinosaur 13”: Why Fox News would have had a field day with T.rex — salon.com

You have to do some decoding while you watch Todd Douglas Miller’s fascinating documentary “Dinosaur 13,” which has elements of legal thriller, political drama, academic throwdown and scientific geek-out. But perhaps the highest endorsement I can give this film is that I’m still not entirely sure what to think about the story it tells. By focusing on the scrappy team of uncredentialed South Dakota paleontologists who found and dug up “Sue,” the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever discovered, Miller turns this tangled saurian saga into a David-and-Goliath fable in which David gets stomped. That’s definitely not the only perspective one could take, and indeed it may make some urban liberal viewers distinctly uncomfortable.

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