Race for Dinosaurs

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In the arid badlands of the American West, two brilliant but fiercely competitive men shaped the bones of American science—sometimes literally. Marsh and Cope's feud, the Bone Wars, drove an explosion of fossil discovery and left a trail of scientific chaos and naming confusion still felt today.

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Now, thanks to open fossil databases, digital archives, and interactive maps, we can trace their discoveries—geographically and chronologically—to better understand how competition helped build American paleontology, even as it fractured it.

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The Bones Wars in a Map

Go to this page and scroll down for a history trip into the Bones Wars

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Bones Wars Stats

How resulted the Bones Wars in numbers?

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Bones Wars Quiz

Test your knowledge about the Bones Wars and win... a bone?

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The Bones War Desk

Click on the figures to know more about our characters.

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