It was 1798, and a group of farm workers digging through wet soil on a Hudson Valley farm had discovered something that would rock the world of early American science: giant, ancient bones buried in the muck. No one had a clean read. No one had seen anything like this, but what started as a haphazard dig on a farm near Newburgh, New York, would eventually change the way a young nation saw itself and its place in natural history.
The bones that started it all
