1/4: Lost World found. 1/4: The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World Hardcover by David K. Randall (Author)
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🗓️ 8 May 2023
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1/4: Lost World found. 1/4: The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World Hardcover by David K. Randall (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Monsters-Bones-Discovery-Shook-World/dp/1324006536
In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York’s struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a privileged socialite whose reputation rests on the museum’s success, and intrepid Kansas-born fossil hunter Barnum Brown.
When Brown unearths the first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils in the Montana wilderness, forever changing the world of paleontology, Osborn sees a path to save his museum from irrelevancy. With four-foot-long jaws capable of crushing the bones of its prey and hips that powered the animal to run at speeds of 25 miles per hour, the T. Rex suggests a prehistoric ecosystem more complex than anyone imagined. As the public turns out in droves to cower before this bone-chilling giant of the past and wonder at the mysteries of its disappearance, Brown and Osborn together turn dinosaurs from a biological oddity into a beloved part of culture.
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| 0:37.0 | It is the spring of 1900. |
| 0:39.0 | Barnum Brown arrives in New York City from Patagonia. |
| 0:44.0 | This is the tale of the search for the Taranosaurus Rex. |
| 0:50.0 | The T-Rex, now displayed at the American Museum of Natural History, has a backstory, |
| 0:56.0 | and a wonderful new book, The Monsters Bones, The Discovery of T-Rex, and how it shook our world. |
| 1:03.0 | David K. Randall is the author. |
| 1:05.0 | He works at Reuters, but in his day job, but in his night job, he travels like Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 1:13.0 | and the scientist challenger to search out the T-Rex, the origin of T-Rex, and how it is that we have T-Rex as the apex predator |
| 1:23.0 | whoever lived on the planet Earth. |
| 1:26.0 | David, congratulations and good evening to you, and thank you very much. |
| 1:30.0 | Barnum Brown arrives from Patagonia where he's been searching for bones. |
| 1:35.0 | Immediately, he's turned around and sent back out by the American Museum of Natural History |
| 1:41.0 | because there is a bones race, which I think of as a moon race or an Arctic race underway between museums and collections, |
| 1:50.0 | the Carnegie Museum and Andrew Carnegie himself, the American Museum of Natural History, the Field Museum, the Fields of Chicago, |
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