In this episode, Odd Salon Fellow Amy Widdowson looks at the lasting legacy of the Smithsonian dinosaur collection, and the rival Victorian paleontologists who spared no efforts in undoing the other.
What happens when you combine the mid-1800s rush to excavate fossils during the Bone Wars, the inherently human desire to discover, name, categorize and display anything and everything, the Edwardian age of optimism, the attempt to assemble skeletons of nightmare lizard creatures that hadn’t walked the earth in millions of years, and the creation of a national Museum of Natural History? Well, you get the Hall of Extinct Monsters at the Smithsonian Institution, of course!
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12/23/22 • 20 min
The Odd Salon Podcast - The Hall of Extinct Monsters
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Our feeble human brain can't understand tens or hundreds of millions of years. It's impossible. We understand two weeks ago, we understand a week ago, we understand five years ago, hell, we understand generations. We can name our great, great, great grandparents and sometimes on a good day, I can explain the general sense of the difference between Common Era and Before Common Era.
But dinosaur bones understand time on a scale we can't comprehend. When you walk into a museum and glance up
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