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

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 1324064536 ISBN13: 9781324064534 Release Date: August 2023 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Length: 288 Pages Weight: 0.50 lbs. Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3" 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 t