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Author Randall, David K., author.

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

Publication Info. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022]

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  560.922 R158m 2022    ---  Available
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Edition First edition.
Description xvii, 260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Series Kansas Notable Book ; 2023.
Indexed In: Kansas Notable Book 2023
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary "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 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. Vivid and engaging, The Monster's Bones journeys from prehistory to present day, from remote Patagonia to the unforgiving badlands of the American West to the penthouses of Manhattan. With a wide-ranging cast of robber barons, eugenicists, and opportunistic cowboys, New York Times best-selling author David K. Randall reveals how a monster of a bygone era ignited a new understanding of our planet and our place within it"-- Provided by publisher.
Awards Kansas Notable Book, 2023
Subject Brown, Barnum.
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935.
American Museum of Natural History -- History.
Tyrannosaurus rex.
Paleontology -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Paleontologists -- United States -- Biography.
Brown, Barnum. (OCoLC)fst00162934
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935. (OCoLC)fst00052152
American Museum of Natural History. (OCoLC)fst00529483
Paleontologists. (OCoLC)fst01051511
Paleontology. (OCoLC)fst01051513
Tyrannosaurus rex. (OCoLC)fst01160097
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Instructional and educational works. (OCoLC)fst01919931
Instructional and educational works.
ISBN 9781324006534 hardcover
1324006536 hardcover
9781324006541 electronic publication

 
    
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