From his office in New York, Brown's boss was just as anxious as his distant employees. Henry Fairfield Osborn had recently taken delivery of their latest prize, a vast hunk of rock containing the skull of a kind of early duck-billed dinosaur. It had been tenderly carted all 2,100 miles (3,379km) from the dig site – a labourious, risky journey involving horses, railway lines and lots of heavy lifting. Only then did Osborn discover that hidden within its stony tomb, the fossil had been a crumpled, misshapen mess all along. The specimen was banished to the museum basement, but he felt that it might as well have been thrown away.
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