The Monster's Bones The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World

David K. Randall

eBook - 2022

A Science Friday Best Book to Read This Summer A gripping narrative of a fearless paleontologist, the founding of America's most loved museums, and the race to find the largest dinosaurs on record. 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...

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Published
W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Main Author
David K. Randall
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
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Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size11 GB
ISBN9781324006541
Release Date6/7/2022
Kindle Book
ASINB09KMD26Y6
Release Date6/7/2022
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9781324006541
Release Date6/7/2022