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Throwback Thursday: Barnum Brown

This is Barnum Brown. He was an American paleontologist during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was popularly known as Mr. Bones. He was born in Kansas and having spent some time in Kansas was one of the best things to come out of that hilly grassland.

One of the biggest things in career was his discovery of Tyrannosaurus rex in 1900.

Brown wrote "Quarry No. 1 contains the femur, pubes, humerus, three vertebrae and two undetermined bones of a large Carnivorous Dinosaur not described by Marsh. ... I have never seen anything like it from the Cretaceous."

Just after this discovery he was made the Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History. But it wasn't just Tyrannosaurus he brought about. You can thank Barnum Brown for making this

the symbol of Sinclair Oil. He acted as a corporate spy for them during the Great Depression and they funded his work. He had worked some on Diplodocus early in his career which is why they chose that particular dinosaur to represent them.

Tune in tomorrow to learn about another famous tyrannosaur...or is it different? Fossilize you later!

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Corythosaurus be like: “don’t mean to toot my own helmet but I was an extra in Jurassic Park 3!”

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Love dinosaurs? Join our Dino Detectives Facebook Group! We hear from Museum scientists each week about an exciting project that centers around famed paleontologist Barnum Brown, boxes of bones from 1934, a map from the Museum's library...and more >> http://bit.ly/2xxqT57

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Today’s a National Holiday

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Want to see archival photos from a 1934 dinosaur dig? Want to learn about the latest paleontology research coming from the Museum? Join our Dino Detectives Facebook Group today! >> https://bit.ly/2B8MKVN

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This Deinonychus, on view in the Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs, is the only real fossil specimen of its kind on display anywhere in the world. The first remains of this carnivorous species, a close relative of Velociraptor, were uncovered in 1931 in southern Montana by Museum paleontologist Barnum Brown, who’s most famous for finding the first traces of Tyrannosaurus rex in Montana in 1902.

Deinonychus is named for its “terrible claw,” a sickle-shaped talon on its hind limbs that it likely used to attack prey. No feathers have been found with fossils of this species, but based on its close relatives, paleontologists hypothesize that this Early Cretaceous dinosaur was probably feathered, too.

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These sauropod specimens are drawn from the Museum's extensive paleontology collection and include dozens of fossil bones, along with elements of the very first dinosaur fossil collected by the Museum more than a century ago. Most of these fossils are from the Museum’s legendary Big Bone Room, where fossils of sauropods and other large dinosaurs are stored on open shelving. 

The earliest fossil find on display—an incomplete skeleton of the long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur Diplodocus longus—was unearthed by legendary Museum dinosaur hunter Barnum Brown along with Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1897 at Como Bluff, Wyoming.

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Happy Birthday, Barnum Brown! Known as one of the greatest dinosaur collectors of all time, Barnum Brown helped the American Museum of Natural History establish its world-class fossil collection. Brown’s extraordinary fossil-hunting career—which took him from a frontier farm to the world’s top fossil sites and to the halls of the Museum—included the discovery of the first skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus rex.