The monster's bones : the discovery of T. Rex and how it shook our world /
"When Barnum Brown unearthed the first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils in the Montana wilderness, it forever changed the world of paleontology. Henry Fairfield Osborn saw a path to save his museum from irrelevancy. With four-foot-long jaws capable of crushing the bones of its prey and hips that powe...
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2022]
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| 246 | 3 | |a Discovery of Tyrannosaurus Rex and how it shook our world | |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b W.W. Norton & Company, |c [2022] | |
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| 300 | |a xvii, 260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations, portraits ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and index. | ||
| 520 | |a "When Barnum Brown unearthed the first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils in the Montana wilderness, it forever changed the world of paleontology. Henry Fairfield Osborn saw 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 suggested a prehistoric ecosystem more complex than anyone at the time had imagined. As the public turned 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 turned dinosaurs from a biological oddity into a beloved part of culture. Randall journeys from prehistory to present day, from remote Patagonia to the unforgiving badlands of the American West to the penthouses of Manhattan, with a cast of robber barons, eugenicists, and opportunistic cowboys. He reveals how a monster of a bygone era ignited a new understanding of our planet and our place within it."--Adapted from book jacket | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Prologue : The center of the world -- A life that could contain him -- A world previous to ours -- Scraping the surface -- Creatures equally colossal and equally strange -- Empty rooms -- A real adventure -- Finding a place in the world -- The uttermost part of the Earth -- Big things -- A very costly season -- The bones of the king -- New beginnings -- The hardest work he could find -- A new world -- The monster unveiled -- A second chance -- Epilogue : The monster's tracks | |
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