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King of the Dinosaur Hunters - The Life of John Bell Hatcher and the Discoveries that Shaped Paleontology (Hardcover)
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King of the Dinosaur Hunters - The Life of John Bell Hatcher and the Discoveries that Shaped Paleontology (Hardcover)
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Every year millions of museum visitors marvel at the skeletons of
dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures discovered by John Bell
Hatcher. The life of the "King of Collectors" is every bit as
fascinating as the mighty bones and fossils he unearthed. Hatcher
helped discover and mount much of the Carnegie Museum's world
famous, 150 million-year-old skeleton of Diplodocus, a
slender-necked, long-tailed, plant-eater whose skeleton has
captivated our collective imaginations for more than a century. But
that wasn't all Hatcher discovered. During a now legendary
collecting campaign in Wyoming between 1889 and 1892, Hatcher
discovered a 66 million-year-old horned dinosaur, Torosaurus, as
well as the first scientifically significant set of skeletons from
its evolutionary cousin, Triceratops. Refusing to restrict his
talents to enormous dinosaurs, he also discovered the first
significant sample of mammal teeth from our relatives that lived 66
million years ago. The teeth might have been minute, but this
extraordinary discovery filled a key gap in humanity's own
evolutionary history. Hatcher's discoveries form the bases of some
of the most beloved and well-known collections and institutions in
the world-Yale, The Peabody Museum, Princeton University, the
Carnegie Museum, and more. Nearly one hundred and twenty-five years
after Hatcher's monumental "hunts" ended, acclaimed paleontologist
Lowell Dingus invites us to revisit Hatcher's captivating
expeditions and marvel at this real-life Indiana Jones and the
vital role he played in our understanding of paleontology.
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