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Peter Larson is an American paleontologist from the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research that led the team that excavated "Sue", one of the most complete specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex found to date. He also co-authored the book "Rex Appeal" which relates the story of how the U.S. Government appropriated the "Sue" T. rex skeleton following its excavation. A paleontologist carefully chips rock from a column of dinosaur vertebrae. ... Binomial name Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn, 1905 Synonyms Manospondylus gigas Dynamosaurus imperiosus Dinotyrannus megagracilis Nanotyrannus lancensis? Tyrannosaurus (IPA pronunciation or ; from the Greek Ï„Ï…ÏαννόσαυÏος, meaning tyrant lizard) is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur. ...
Peter Larson was one of the first to work with T. rex bone pathologies, has worked to uncover sexual dimorphism in the chevron length of T. rex and is considered an overall expert on T. rex fossils.
He is currently president of Black Hills Institute of Geological Research Inc.
Larson,Pand Frey,E. "Sexual Dimorphism in the Abundant Upper Cretaceous Theropod, T. rex." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12, Abstract 96, 3 September 1992.
Larson, P. and Donnan, K. "Rex Appeal". Montpelier, VT: Invisible Cities Press, 2002.
But when PeterLarson heard his collaborator Josh Rubins say it to him midway through the opening night performance of their musical Brownstone, he knew that his career as a theater composer was about to be made or broken, for that October 8, 1986 Times would carry Frank Rich's review of his show.
Larson still wasn't writing music, but his daughter would play a major role in getting him back to composing: In 1988, his daughter's teacher had heard that Larson had had a theater composing background and asked him to write a show for the school.
Larson was thrilled, of course, as was Callaway, who told her friends Rebecca Luker and Debbie Gravitte that they just had to be a part of the project.
PETERLARSON: We agreed on a price of $5,000 for the fossil and the rights thereof, and we wrote him a check, and he took the check and cashed it.
PETERLARSON: They came into this office, locked the door, and they were in there with the computers apparently copying everything from our computer onto their computer.
PETERLARSON: Because there's millions and millions of square miles in this country that are sedimentary rock that are filled with fossils.
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