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Almanac: T-Rex discoverer Barnum Brown

On February 12, 1873 paleontologist Barnum Brown was born in Carbondale, Kansas. The scientist who came to be known as "Mr. Bones" uncovered the partial skeleton of a huge, previously-unknown dinosaur - the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Jane Pauley Reports.
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