The Bone Wars

Otherwise known as the biggest dick measuring contest of all time (according to Rosie), this is Just The Gist of two of the first men to discover dinosaur bones back in the 1800s. So many fossils and dinosaurs were being discovered at the time that they called it 'The Great Dinosaur Rush', because every time you discovered a new dinosaur, you got to name it and go down in the history books as the OFFICIAL CLEVER MAN WHO FOUND THIS DINOSAUR. But did Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh play fair in this rush to discover new dinosaurs? Of course they didn't! They let their egos get in the way, and in the race to be the bestest, most importantist dino digger, they actually started DESTROYING fossils just so the other guy couldn't find them. That's right - there could be hundreds of dinosaurs that we'll never know about because these two guys smashed them up like babies. So who won The Bone Wars in the end?

We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more there's this:

Here’s a few articles worth reading: 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/battle-for-the-bone-wars-beasts 

https://www.wired.com/2011/08/o-c-marsh-before-the-bone-wars/ 

https://interactive.wttw.com/prehistoric-road-trip/detours/the-two-paleontologists-who-had-a-bone-to-pick-with-each-other 

The Wikipedia page is especially detailed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_Wars

And a few videos worth checking out: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMWAOWfbN1M 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaEFwNGwHxk 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP_3PF-FOV0 

Some podcasts:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b05xh31n 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BffwWquMh-8 

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