2/4: Lost World found. 2/4: 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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2/4: Lost World found. 2/4: 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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| 0:31.0 | This is CBS I in the world. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm John Batchwood, David Randall, his new book is The Monsters Bones. |
| 0:39.0 | This is the search for T. Racks. |
| 0:41.5 | It is now 1873 and a child is born in Carbondale, Kansas. |
| 0:48.1 | He is given an unusual name, however, by his older brother. |
| 0:52.8 | David, how is it that an older brother gets to name a younger brother? |
| 0:56.3 | Have you ever had that experience? |
| 0:58.6 | No, and as a younger brother, I'm glad I didn't. |
| 1:02.9 | But so this was a time where the Barnums, they were the Browns, I mean, the Browns, they |
| 1:09.1 | were relatively prosperous. |
| 1:10.8 | They're still farmers though, so they're not rich by the standards of a city. |
| 1:15.3 | And they take their six-year-old son Frank up to the big city of Topeka and they go to |
| 1:22.8 | PT Barnums, Great Traveling World's Fair. |
| 1:26.0 | This is a six-year-old. |
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