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The Conspirators Podcast

Ep. 13 - The Bone Wars

The Conspirators Podcast

The Conspirators Podcast

Society & Culture, History

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In the mid-1870s two of the most prominent paleontologists in the world, Edward Drinker Cope and O.C. Marsh, waged an epic and often ridiculous war against one another. This is the bizarre true story of The Bone Wars.... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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it wasn't until 1842 when a British paleontologist named Sir Richard Owen gave these terrible

0:45.9

lizards the name, Dinosaurs.

0:49.8

As a result, for a few decades at least, England was considered the epicenter of paleontology,

0:55.0

with the United States still being considered little more than a scientific backwater.

1:00.0

That all changed between 1870 and 1890 when a pair of brilliant American paleontologists rose to the forefront of the field,

1:10.0

publishing more than a thousand scientific papers between them

1:13.3

and introducing the world to dozens of new dinosaur species.

1:18.7

Edward Drinker Cope was born in Philadelphia on July 28, 1840 to a prosperous Quaker family.

1:26.4

Although he had a few periods of formal education, Cope was primarily a self-taught prodigy.

1:33.2

He published his first scientific paper at the age of 18.

1:37.2

His father encouraged him to carry on working on the family farm, but Cope had bigger dreams

1:42.1

of becoming a scientist, and eventually his father accepted his son's dreams and helped him pursue them.

1:49.0

After doing considerable traveling throughout Europe, he returned to the U.S. and using his father's

1:54.5

connections, Edward Cope obtained an honorary degree from Haverford College, which allowed him

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