The monster's bones : the discovery of T. Rex and how it shook our world /

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Randall, David K. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Brown, Barnum.
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, > 1857-1935.
American Museum of Natural History > History.
Tyrannosaurus rex > History.
Paleontology > United States > History > 20th century.
Paleontologists > United States > Biography.
Natural history museum curators > United States > Biography.
Biography.
Instructional and educational works.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • 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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