Whatever happened, the skeleton shows that Sue survived her injuries long enough to do some healing, but she was probably in quite a bit of pain. One of the bizarre and mysterious aspects of the Tyrannosaurids and other carnosaurs are the small forelimbs with two claws. They are too short to lift food to their mouth. Many dinosaurs have a massive skull and fearsome teeth, and a heavy long tail. Modern birds, on the other hand, have a light skull, no teeth, and no tail.
Some scientists believe that some dinosaurs persisted into historical times.
There are literally thousands of legends and stories from around the world well into the middle ages of fearsome dinosaur like dragons both in the sea and on land, and legends of famous heroes of old that slew dragons and saved cities.