page_title: Burpee Museum of Natural History
section_title: Jane-Diary of a Dinosaur
hierarchical_section_title: Burpee Museum of Natural History / Exhibits / Jane-Diary of a Dinosaur
caption_attribution_description: English: Skeletal mount of "Jane" the 11 year-old Tyrannosaurus rex, on display at the Burpee Museum of Natural History, Rockford, Illinois
context_page_description: The Burpee Museum of Natural History is located along the Rock River in downtown Rockford, Illinois, United States, at 737 North Main Street.
context_section_description: Jane (BMRP 2002.4.1) is a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex or Nanotyrannus lancensis discovered in the Hell Creek Formation in southeastern Montana during the summer of 2001 by Carol Tuck and Bill Harrison, team members of an expedition led by Burpee Museum curator Michael Henderson,"She" is named after Burpee Museum benefactor Jane Solem. After four years of preparation, Jane is on display as the centerpiece of the exhibit at Burpee Museum, "Jane: Diary of a Dinosaur".  Visitors can discover what happened during the 66 million years she lay buried, visit a re-creation of the expedition's Montana base camp, and view her fully restored 21-foot skeleton. She was 11 years old at death, and is half as big as her adult counterpart "Sue," who is 43 feet long and resides at Chicago's Field Museum.  Jane's weight was probably nearly 1,500 lbs. Her big feet and long powerful legs indicate she was built for speed. Her lower jaw has 17 finely curved, serrated, razor-sharp teeth designed to tear into flesh.
  Rockford's Jane exhibit also contains scale casts of other dinosaurs, including a 40-foot Tyrannosaurus rex.  Another exhibit is Homer, the most complete subadult Triceratops fossil yet discovered in the Hell Creek Formation of southeastern Montana, found by Helmuth Redschlag in July 2005.  Homer is the primary constituent of the first Triceratops bone bed, at a site discovered in Carter county on land leased to ranchers by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).  Preparation of Homer began in the summer of 2005, and was completed in late August 2012.  The complete skeleton will be on display as part of the Homer's Odyssey exhibit, coming in May 2013.
  In July 2006 The Science Channel aired The Mystery Dinosaur, a one-hour documentary on the discovery and continuing scientific argument over whether Jane is a juvenile T. rex or an adult Nanotyrannus lancensis. The Mystery Dinosaur aired on the Discovery Channel in the fall of 2006.
  In March 2007, Jane was nominated as one of Illinois' Seven Wonders.
caption: Jane, the best-preserved and most complete juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex yet found on display at the Burpee Museum
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