In the spirit of Barnum Brown, I recently went on a dinosaur hunt. On a visit to the Harvard Museum of Natural History, I checked out the Museum's Triceratops, which is the 'type specimen' or the first one ever described. While Barnum Brown was a student at the University of Kansas in 1895, his expedition discovered a nearly perfect Triceratops skull in eastern Wyoming. In addition, it was Barnum's chance encounter with a Triceratops' horn that he received from his friend William Hornaday that led Barnum to Hell Creek, Montana, where he eventually discovered T. rex.
I also saw the world's only mounted Kronosaurus, a 42-foot-long prehistoric marine reptile (not technically a dino). This interesting article details some of the history of this specimen.
This specimen was also on display:
Can you identify it?
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