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Barnum's Bones
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Question | Answer |
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Barnum was named after a famous ...... | circus owner |
Barnum did ------------things. | unusual |
What did Barnum find behind his father's plow? | corals, clams, snails and scallops |
Where did Barnnum keep his collection? | his bedroom |
How did Barnum imagine his family's farm? | He imagined his farm at the bottom of a shallow swirrling sea. |
Barnum was such a good student that he got to go on a ________hunt in the summer. | fossil |
Why did Barnum call Henry Fairfield Osborn, "My Dear Professor"? | Because he loved bones as much as Barnum. |
How did Barnum dress when he went prospecting? | Sometimes he would wear a fur coat, a suit, black boots, and a hat |
What happened to Barnum when he went to South America? | He was shipwrecked and nearly eaten by a mountain lion. |
Professor Osborn said Barnum could _____bones. | smell |
What did Barnum's friend find in Hell Creek Montana? | the horn of a Triceratops |
While Barnum was in the Badlands why was Professor Osborn getting cranky? | The Carneige Museum of Natural History had found a new species of dinosaur. |
Why did Barnum leave the Badlands before he unearthed the skelton? | The season was over, and it was going to be winter soon. |
What did Barnum do during the winter months? | He worked in the museum's laboratory. |
What did Professor Osborn call the T-Rex? | "The king of kings" "a fighting machine" |
What did Barnum collect in 1908 in the Badlands? | A sunburn and mosquito bites |
How did Barnum celebrate his discovery of the T-Rex Skull? | danced the two-step and tango at a ranch near Big Dry Creek. |
What did Barnum call the dionsaur species he had discovered? | "His favorite child" |