Not long ago, I was revisiting the famous science fiction adventure movie "Jurassic Park", in which the various dinosaurs are dazzling, but I pay more attention to the botanist who knows the ancient plants, Dr. Zettler.
At the beginning of the film, Dr. Settler and his old partner, Dr. Grant, a veteran archaeologist with a fanatical curiosity about dinosaurs, investigate in the wild, and the conditions in the wild are very harsh and the average person cannot stand it, let alone women.
But in reality, there is such a woman, keen to explore everywhere, and found a world record to date a Tyrannosaurus rex overall skeleton fossil, she is Su Hendrickson, she found the Tyrannosaurus rex overall skeleton fossil is also named "Su" after her name.
So how do I know this person? This is because I recently received a new book that I did not read in small books - "Biography of Female Pioneers", which has a total of 5 books, telling the stories of 5 intelligent women who pioneered in the field of humanities and science.
The first book I read was "Sue and a Dinosaur Named "Sue," which tells the story of paleontologist Sue Hendrickson.
The book's author, Toni Baggio, is an American children's book writer and critic, and the illustrator Diana Sudica is an American illustrator.
In the book, Baggio tells sue's story in a variety of fascinating details, while Sudika adds a different charm to the book with delicate illustrations like gouache, and many interesting small details in the painting also make the book interesting to read.
Su has been a different child since she was a child, other children like to eat when they are young, but Su likes to read, so what books do she usually read?
Botany, archaeology, marine biology.
The little dinosaur on the bed and the book called Dinosaurs next to the bed also seem to imply something.
Sue is also good at finding things: missing trinkets, prehistoric butterflies, shipwrecks, she can find them.
Looking at this picture, what is Sue looking for?
Although my daughter is young, less than 4 years old, she can see at a glance that Sue is looking for this bottle, after all, in this painting, this blingbling brass perfume bottle is too conspicuous.
Sue's curiosity is also very strong, as long as it is something she is interested in, she will thoroughly explore and study it. Driven by curiosity, Sue went to visit the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
Looking at the fossil skeletons of these two Triceratops and Platypus in the museum, was Su already fascinated by this huge dinosaur fossil at this time?
At the age of 17, Sue began her own exploration career, joining a team that dives underwater in search of tropical fish, after which she begins to search for missing boats, missing planes, and even missing cars.
Sue found extinct prehistoric butterflies in the amber mines of Dominica, fossils of prehistoric whales in the peruvian desert, and later went to the wild with an expedition to dig up platypus fossils.
The conditions in this wilderness are much worse than the conditions of Dr. Settler in Jurassic Park, dr. Settler at least has a motorhome, the basic facilities on the car are readily available, and there are drinks and alcohol to drink.
Sue and the expedition team had a much worse time, with no shower room to bathe, no bed to sleep on, and not even a shelter to keep them out of the midday sun.
I myself went to the field to practice when I was in college, when there was no hot water for bathing in that place, we could only take a bath with cold water, and the water quality was not good, there were always small stones in the water, just like this condition, we only interned for a short week, and when I came back, I got a skin disease and applied a lot of medicine.
But Sue endured such harsh conditions and persisted for four years. Because this is the job she loves, this is the life she yearns for.
As the excavation of the platypus fossils progressed into its fourth year, one day Sue suddenly felt as if he had been called by fate to the foot of a cliff not far from the camp.
Then Sue looked up, and she couldn't believe what she was seeing—it was three huge vertebrae!
Based on Sue's experience, she believes that these fossils belonged to Rex Tyrannosaurus rex, which we commonly call Tyrannosaurus rex.
Sue hurried back to the camp and told the team's companions the news. They then dug for 5 days and finally released the T. rex from the cliff, the largest and most complete skeleton of T. rex ever unearthed, and the T. rex was named Su.
Tyrannosaurus rex "Sue" was photographed by the Field Museum of Natural History, which Sue often visited when he was a child, and the book is also accompanied by a real photo of the skeleton of the T-Rex.
At the end of the book, the author also intimately popularized sue's life and related reading extension for us, so that we can understand more about Su.
From here, we can see that after the discovery of the Tyrannosaurus Rex "Su", several factions believed that "Su" belonged to them, including the owner of the land where "Su" was found, the government of the area where "Su" was located, and the leadership of the research institute team where Su was located, only Su did not participate in this battle for sovereignty over "Su".
In addition to his status as the discoverer of "Sue", Sue is also an adventurer, explorer, diver of underwater archaeological excavations, marine archaeologist, field paleontologist, and a well-known amber fossil expert.
Sue's own personal experience proves that it inspires us to see the world around us more closely, never losing our curiosity, bravery and adventurous spirit.
As Sue Hendrickson says in the book: "Never lose your curiosity about everything in the universe, it will take you to places you thought were absolutely impossible to reach!" ”