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The Crazy Story Of The Bone Wars Explained Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images
By Marina Manoukian/Dec. 30, 2020 4:46 pm EDT
Over the course of the 19th century, people around the world were fascinated by dinosaurs and their fossilized bones that kept popping up. But no one seemed more obsessed than American paleontologists Edward Cope and O.C. Marsh, and the rivalry between the two men became a stain on paleontology s history for decades after their deaths.
Although the two men are responsible for discovering and naming countless different types of dinosaurs and prehistoric animals, they re also responsible for destroying an unknowable amount of the fossil record. And they did this solely to keep the other one from getting it. And in the interest of putting out as much of their own research as possible, both men published research that would be riddled with errors. Some of their mistakes plagued paleontology for years,