Barnum Brown: The Man Who Discovered Tyrannosaurus Rex Born in rural Carbondale, Kansas in 1873, Brown would spend nearly his entire adult life searching for fossils all over the world ...

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 ...

Barnum Brown was marked for greatness from a young age. Born on a Kansas farm on February 12, 1873, the third child of Clara and William Brown went weeks without a name.

Barnum Brown’s passion for paleontology began early. Born in 1873, he spent his childhood in eastern Kansas, in a landscape whose hills rippled with exposed coal seams. Hired hands helped his ...

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 ...

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. Image # 18029/American Museum of ...

Born To Prey: Watch T. Rex Come Alive. Animals Bone To Pick: First T. Rex Skeleton, Complete At Last. ... Among the best was Barnum Brown, who discovered the first T. Rex in 1902.