The history of real life dinosaur hunters

Dinosaur hunters are real. Not the sort who battle them in the flesh like in Jurassic Park, but hunters who seek their bones. In the early 20th century, finding the greatest dinosaur of all, the Tyrannous Rex, became the obsession of two men from very different backgrounds.

Reuters senior reporter David Randall goes digging in the past to unearth the human story behind the search for prehistoric bones. It’s the story of robber barons and opportunistic cowboys all searching for something buried for 60 million years that would help us better understand our planet.

Randall’s new book is called “The Monster’s Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World.”

The history of real life dinosaur hunters
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