PARK CITY, Utah -- What happens when a ragtag group of paleontologists takes on the federal government?
How does a paleontologist digging for bones in South Dakota wind up serving 18 months in prison?
And how did the "Dinosaur 13" filmmakers get access to decades-old footage to tell the story of the discovery of the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton named Sue?
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Todd Miller, the director of the Sundance Film Festival documentary, dropped by the Los Angeles Times Studio in Park City to discuss how these issues touch on his movie, which opened the festival Thursday night.
The movie, screening in the festival's U.S. Documentary Competition section, centers on paleontologist Pete Larson, who along with his team discovered the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex on record while on a 1990 dig in the badlands of South Dakota.