Wednesday, April 1, 2020

The Bone Wars


O.C. Marsh vs. E.D. Cope. 

https://slate.com/business/2013/08/dinosaur-bone-wars-othniel-charles-marsh-edward-drinker-cope-and-their-forgotten-rival.html

http://oceansofkansas.com/NYHerald.html


Marsh’s 1896 illustration of the bones of Stegosaurus, a dinosaur he described and named in 1877

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


Marsh (back row and center), surrounded by armed assistants for his 1872 expedition. Marsh spent little time in the field himself, generally delegating these tasks to his agents.


 The skull of a Torosaurus, c. 1914, collected by O.C. Marsh (Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, Yale Peabody Museum)

 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientific-daredevils-made-yales-peabody-museum-national-treasure-180958905/

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