The Bone Wars: A Feud That Rocked U.S. Paleontology
The Bone Wars resulted in the description of some of the most famous dinosaurs we know of today, but not without some pretty big mistakes. We're conducting a survey of our viewers! If you...
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[♪♩INTRO] The world is full of great rivalries, like Marvel and DC, or Ali and Frazier. Science has its fair share too—just look at Tesla and Edison. And in the late 19th Century, two paleontologists named Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope entered a feud that would eventually be known as the Bone Wars. While trying to one-up each other, they found and named some of today’s most famous dinosaurs, but they also made some pretty big mistakes. At this point in history, paleontology was still taking its first clumsy steps. In 1824, a British geologist named William Buckland published a paper about some bones that he thought were from a huge extinct lizard. He called it a Megalosaurus. And even though “dinosaur” wouldn’t become a word unt...
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[♪♩INTRO] The world is full of great rivalries, like Marvel and DC, or Ali and Frazier. Science has its fair share too—just look at Tesla and Edison. And in the late 19th Century, two paleontologists named Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope entered a feud that would eventually be known as the Bone Wars. While trying to one-up each other, they found and named some of today’s most famous dinosaurs, but they also made some pretty big mistakes. At this point in history, paleontology was still taking its first clumsy steps. In 1824, a British geologist named William Buckland published a paper about some bones that he thought were from a huge extinct lizard. He called it a Megalosaurus. And even though “dinosaur” wouldn’t become a word unt...
