Michael Covel speaks with Peter Larson. First, Michael Covel discusses some feedback he’s received from author Jack Schwager about the podcast. Specifically, Schwager brought up the episode from paleontologist Jack Horner. Covel brings another dinosaur hunter to the podcast today: Peter Larson. Larson is an American paleontologist, fossil collector, and president of the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, a company that excavates, prepares, and sells fossils. He led the team that excavated "Sue", the largest and most complete specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex found to date, and has published numerous scientific and popular works on dinosaur paleontology. A movie based on “Sue”, Dinosaur 13, has been produced as well. You might ask, what’s the connection to Michael Covel? Covel explains that Larson’s story involves government intervention, a massive legal case, and ownership issues in addition to Covel’s personal connection to Larson. Covel and Larson talk about luck’s role in finding dinosaurs; Larson’s personal anecdotes about finding “Sue”; whether Larson knew at the time that he was finding a piece of “land” in a legal sense; the scientific data that Larson was able to glean before the government took the bones; telling a male dinosaur from a female dinosaur; what makes Larson a T-Rex entrepreneur; T-Rex as a predator or scavenger; and the legal case surrounding “Sue”. For more information on Peter Larson, visit BHIGR.com. Want a free trend following DVD? Go to trendfollowing.com/win.