The skull of the 'T. rex' specimen discovered by Barnum Brown. | John Parise, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 2.0 Though the discovery was groundbreaking, the fossil itself left much to be desired.

How Barnum Brown Discovered the Most Famous Dinosaur in the World By Tracey Fern. Pictures by Boris Kulikov. Farrar Straus Giroux. $17.99. Ages 5 and up. Like the circus showman he was named for ...

Excavated from a ranch in Wyoming and prepared in 1996 by paleontologist Japheth Boyce, the partial T. rex skeleton up for auction Sunday was named after Barnum Brown, who first discovered a ...

Fossil hunter Barnum Brown discovered and excavated the first Tyrannosaurs rex skeleton, starting in 1902. Here, he's uncovering bones in a dusty field in 1901.

But right from the beginning, one aspect of these kings of the "tyrant lizards" was deeply mysterious: their puny arms. Brown's T. rex skeleton was missing all its fingers and both its forearms ...

Almanac: T-Rex discoverer Barnum Brown 02:31. And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: February 12th 1873, 144 years ago today … the day fossil hunter Barnum Brown was born in ...

The first T. rex was discovered in eastern Wyoming in 1900 by dinosaur hunter Barnum Brown. At the time, just 13 percent of the skeleton was recovered. Those remains are now part of the British Museum ...

Scientists have learned a lot about T. rex since "Jurassic Park." ... The first T. rex skeleton was discovered in 1902 by Barnum Brown, a paleontologist with the AMNH. In 1942, ...

Barnum Brown, a fossil hunter working for the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City, discovered the first documented T. rex fossils in Hell Creek, Montana in 1902.

The first partial skeleton was discovered in 1902 by legendary fossil hunter Barnum Brown, a native Kansan. Brown found the remains in the Hell Creek Formation, a rich bone bed that runs through ...

Among the best was Barnum Brown, who discovered the first T. Rex in 1902. See photos and letters from his early trips. Accessibility links. Skip to main content; Keyboard shortcuts for audio player; ...