This week we talk about two petty palaeontologists who's rivalry created "The Bone Wars" during the great American dinosaur rush of the late 19th century, joined by the wonderful actress Laura O'Leary

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Episode Source Material

https://ansp.org/explore/online-exhibits/stories/bone-wars-the-cope-marsh-rivalry/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2015/04/15/battle-for-the-bone-wars-beasts/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Kg2gw7PgE

https://animals.howstuffworks.com/dinosaurs/apatosaurus.htm

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/why-the-long-neck/

https://peabody.yale.edu/collections/archives/biography/othniel-charles-marsh

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/60125/edward-drinker-cope-and-story-paleontologists-wandering-skull

https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/marsh.html

https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/cope.html

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-bone-wars-1092038

https://interestingengineering.com/bone-wars-the-marsh-cope-feud-and-its-dinosaur-discoveries

https://books.google.ie/books?id=Z8Tj2HvfHRwC&pg=PA153&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/05/08/the-bone-wars-the-heated-rivalry-between-two-paleontologists-that-led-to-great-fossil-discoveries-and-their-own-social-demise/

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32205289

https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2015/07/14/4271550.htm

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