It was Thursday morning, and Sari Custer stood and stared at a giant dinosaur skull tucked behind a curtain in a corner of Phoenix City Hall. “She’s so pretty,” Custer said, then apologized to a man ...

After she hatched 66 million years ago, Victoria was the queen predator of her time during the Cretaceous period. But the Tyrannosaurus rex was struck down in her prime, before reaching her 30s, by an ...