![]() ![]() rex, Osborn tried a method never before attempted for making dinosaur mounts. Once the metal frame was attached it was impossible to reposition the bones. Here were animals nearly twenty feet high and twice as long, whose heavy bones needed even heavier iron braces to support them. rex skeletons Brown had dug in the Hell Creek Formation, Osborn had enough fossil material to describe and recreate most of an entire T. The New York Times headlined its feature on the display of the mount "The Prize Fighter of Antiquity Discovered and Restored." Professor Osborn was credited with the discovery of the "swift two-footed tyrant." rex were put on display beside an Apatosaurus (then known as Brontosaurus and given a Camarasaurus-Uke head). rex's namesake specimen was prepared, the legs of T. In December of 1906, even before the partial skull of T. rex that Brown had found that year) mounted in a sttinning but unlikely upright pose that made the legs stand fifteen feet from hip to floor. ![]() rex in 1905, Osborn, then a senior researcher, promptly had what was available of the animal (hind limbs of yet another T. Loved spectacular displays, and he had one in mind for T. rex stood for decades in the american museum of natural history in new york until it was dismantled in 1992. As a scientist at the American Museum, and in the fifteen years he was its president (1908-1923), he made it into a world-class institution, in part by being a showman. Henry Fairfield Osborn was not just a great and influential scientist, he was a smart administrator. Osborn thought its forelimbs, no longer than ours, were "apparendy of very littie use," except as "meat hooks." He did have one other interesting idea for how they might have been used-for stroking its partner during mating. rex as "active and swift of movement when the occasion arose." rex's discoverer, Barnum Brown, who imagined T. This size, Tyrannosaurus was unquestionably fleet of foot." So also thought T. rex walked upright, Osborn also believed T. Its big T-shaped pubic bone, Osborn thought, would have been the anchor for heavy abdominal muscles. rex was vicious, in Osborn's mind, in keeping with its primitive nature, "the tendency of the older forms to be the more quarrelsome and wage their combats with greater persistence." rex as the top dog among dinosaur hunters, "the chief exterminator of Tricer-atops." Its massive teeth, "pointed like daggers," were used to "terrorize the other animals that lived at the same time." T. And it wasn't the impression Osborn intended. But it isn't how scientists now think of T. rex stood for most of this century at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. ![]() rex skeleton of them all, the one that has thrilled so many youngsters and inspired a bunch of them (including Harvard University's Stephen Jay Gould) to become pale. rex looked like and acted like-ferocious, upright, and tail dragging. HE MAN WHO NAMED Trex., Henry Fairfield Osbom, is also the one who gave several generations of scientists, artists, moviemakers, and so most of us, our sense of what T. ![]()
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