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 ...

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: 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 ...

Evesun - Chasing Barnum. OXFORD – It was not the fossilized remains of giant lizards that drew a paleontologist from the American Museum of Natural History to Oxford ...

Among the best was Barnum Brown, who discovered the first T. Rex in 1902. See photos and letters from his early trips. Special Series Forgotten Treasures Of Science.

Among those highlighted is the 2010 discovery of Barnum Brown’s dinosaur dig sites in Big Bend National Park. After six years as chief ranger of that park (1977-’82), ...

Barnum Brown was one of the top dinosaur hunters of all time. His nickname was “Mr. Bones,” after all, and according to the paleontological apocrypha surrounding the man, he was so skilled at ...