Thursday Thought

One interesting, and little-known, fact about Barosaurus is that two women were involved in its discovery, at a time when American paleontology was in the grips of the testosterone-fueled Bone Wars. The type specimen of this sauropod was discovered by the postmistress of Pottsville, South Dakota, Ms. E.R. Ellerman (who subsequently alerted the Yale paleontologist Othniel C. Marsh), and a South Dakota landowner, Rachel Hatch, guarded the remainder of the skeleton until it was eventually excavated, years later, by one of Marsh's assistants.

( Info Credit: http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/herbivorousdinosaurs/p/barosaurus.htm
 Photo Credit: www.prehistoric-wildlife.com)