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Imagine finding a T. Rex

With all the Jurassic Park movies, seeing a T-rex has become fairly common today. But just imagine the wonder of unearthing the first skeleton at the turn of the last century. David K. Randall, senior reporter at Reuters, joins host Krys Boyd to tell the story of fossil hunter Barnum Brown, his discovery that amazed the world, and how the Museum of Natural History capitalized on it. His book is “The Monster’s Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World.”

This episode originally aired on July 11, 2022.