I have never seen anything like it

The most amazing discovery

Aug 12, 2024

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Barnum Brown with excavation workers at Hell Creek, Montana, in 1942. The white block in the foreground is the sacrum bone of Tyrannosaurus Rex. It weighed 4,250 pounds. Photo via Getty.

Born in Kansas in 1873, Barnum Brown was the “Indiana Jones of Paleontology”—a charismatic character who travelled the world hunting for the fossils of dinosaurs, and wi…

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