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"Tells the story of the feverish race between two ... competitive scientists--Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh--to uncover [dinosaur] fossils in the newly opened Wild West. Between them, they discovered dozens of major dinosaur species and established the new discipline of paleontology in America. But their bitter thirty-year rivalry--a 'war' waged on wild plains and mountains, in tabloid newsprint, and in Congress--dramatically wrecked...
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The year is 1876. Among the warring Indian tribes and lawless gold-rush towns of America's western territories, two paleontologists pillage the Wild West. They are hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous territory plunges the arrogant and entitled Yale student William Johnson. Determined to survive a summer in the west to win...
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A nonfiction picture book depicting the decades-long rivalry between nineteenth century paleontologists O. C. Marsh and Edward Cope, known as the Bone Wars. Describes how Marsh and Cope met in 1863, bonding over their shared love of prehistoric skeletons, and initially collaborated with each other until Marsh discovered an error in Cope's construction of a dinosaur skeleton. Although the resulting war between them lasted until their deaths, the pair's...
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Profiles the life and work of Mary Anning, a pioneer of paleontology, and discusses those that followed her and carried on her work, including Edward Cope and Othniel Marsh whose competition over dinosaur bones ruined them but contributed greatly to the field of paleontology. Includes a timeline, illustrations, a glossary, and further resources.
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Edward Drinker Cope was a charming man with a passion for old bones. Othniel Marsh was a stickler for procedure when he studied his fossil finds. They started as friends, sharing ideas and information, but after Marsh tried to poach Cope's digging site, they became bitter enemies. Their decades-long feud fueled their desire to dig up more bones, to discover new species, and to find ever bigger and more unusual dinosaurs. Through their competition,...