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5 days ago · One fossil in particular marked the start of the Bone Wars between the rival paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh. Cope's Elasmosaurus with its head on the tail and lacking hindlimbs. In 1867, physician Theophilus Turner near Fort Wallace in Kansas uncovered a plesiosaur skeleton, which he donated to Cope.
2 days ago · Marsh named Diplodocus during the Bone Wars, his competition with Philadelphian paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope to collect and describe as many fossil taxa as possible.
Jun 15, 2024 · Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh engaged in a rivalry known as The Bone Wars. Their feud led to the discovery of 136 new species of North American dinosaurs. Tactics included espionage, theft, and damaging each other's reputations.
Jun 27, 2024 · First descriptions by Cope. Fossils now attributed to Dimetrodon were first studied by American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope in the 1870s. Cope had obtained the fossils along with those of many other Permian tetrapods from several collectors who had been exploring a group of rocks in Texas called the Red Beds.
4 days ago · The Golden Age of Dinosaur Discovery. The late 19th century witnessed a golden age of dinosaur discovery, with expeditions to the American West unearthing vast quantities of fossils. The work of Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope, who engaged in a fierce rivalry known as the “Bone Wars,” led to the discovery of some of the most ...
Jun 23, 2024 · Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope were American paleontologists during the second half of the 19th century. Although they started as friends, they soon turned bitter enemies, competing against one another for 20 years to find and name the most fossils.
Jun 27, 2024 · Cope, Edward Drinker. "On the discovery of the remains of a gigantic dinosaur in the Cretaceous of New Jersey," in: Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia , vol. 18 (1866), pp. 275-9.
