Eleven-year-old junior paleontologist Shelly helps PaleoJoe investigate the disappearance from Chicago's Field Museum of Dinosaur Sue, the most complete skeleton of a tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered
PaleoJoe, his eleven-year-old assistant Shelly, her classmate Dakota, and Detective Franks go on a dinosaur dig, where Shelly makes a rare find and Dakota goes undercover in an attempt to foil a plot