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	Podcast:		The John Batchelor Show
	Episode:		1/4: The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World by David K. Randall (Author)
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:08:10
	Publish Date:		2023-01-03 01:37:20
	Description:		Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1878 Opening of the American Natural History Museum NYC @Batchelorshow 1/4: The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World 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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