![]() He wrote the museum for more money - and to complain. This time, Brown found something unlike anything he'd ever seen.īrown's team blasted a hillside with dynamite, then dragged the ground with horse-drawn earth-movers. It was a region that had yielded exciting dinosaur bones before. In the summer of 1902, Brown went to Hell Creek, Mont. Image # 28767/American Museum of Natural History Brown and his team used horses to pull away layers of soil and rock above the dinosaur bones. He held the top paleontology spot at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, a job now held by Mark Norell.īrown (lower left) works in the quarry in 1905 in Hell Creek, Mont., where the first T. He was flamboyant on dinosaur digs, he'd wear a full-length fur coat.īut he was a serious scientist, too. They were headhunters looking for skulls, because they were flashier."Īnd Barnum Brown was among the best - the Indiana Jones of dino hunters. ![]() They were looking for specimens they could mount in museums. "When people went out looking for dinosaurs, they were trophy hunters. "It was literally the Wild West at that time," says Witmer. Larry Witmer, paleontologist at Ohio University, says scientists clamored for bones and more bones. In the early 1900s, dinosaur bones were like Egyptian mummies - mysteries that dazzled both the public and scientists. The bone came out of a Montana hillside over 100 years ago, discovered by a man who was a legend among fossil hunters. © 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc.Science Expedition Notes: In The Field With Fossil Hunter Barnum Brown Edward Lewine, a spokesperson for Christie’s said only that the skeleton would “benefit from further study.” REUTERS Larson has been studying the “Stan” skeleton ever since, adding that the skull of the new dinosaur set to go on auction had identical holes in its lower left jaw that were unique to the one he studied for decades. Larson helped excavate the original “Stan” skeleton in 1992, along with the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research in South Dakota, for which he is president. The “Shen” skeleton delisted from next week’s Hong Kong auction HOW HWEE YOUNG/EPA-EFE/ShutterstockĮdward Lewine, a spokesperson for Christie’s said the skeleton would “benefit from further study.” The consignor has now decided to loan the specimen to a museum for public display,” the auction house said in a statement Monday. “After consultation with the consignor of the Tyrannosaurus rex scheduled for sale on 30 November in Hong Kong, Christie’s has decided to withdraw the lot. “It’s very misleading.”Ĭhristie’s gave no explanation for why they were withdrawing the dinosaur, which was set to be the headline item with an estimated value between $15 million and $25 million. ![]() “They’re using Stan to sell a dinosaur that’s not Stan,” Larson told the New York Times. ![]() Mickey Mantle jersey auction could make historyĬardi B’s hurled Vegas microphone lands big bucks in charity auctionĮlvis Presley’s beloved revolver up for auction to commemorate the anniversary of his deathĬhristie’s canceled a $20 million auction of a nearly complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton after a paleontologist accused the British auction house of using bones from a different dinosaur.Įsteemed paleontologist Pete Larson told the News York Times that bones from the T-rex “Shen” set to go on auction next week in Hong Kong look remarkably similar to the bones of another T-rex skeleton that Christie’s auctioned in 2020, called “Stan,” which sold for $31.8 million. Kate Winslet’s ‘Titanic’ overcoat will go on - at auction for ‘$100K plus’ ![]()
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