Selects: What Were the BONE WARS?

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 August 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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A pair of old timey fossil hunters had a rootin’ tootin’ rivalry that spilled from academic journals into the American Wild West - where fossils were dynamited and employees turned double agent. Learn about the two-fisted origins of American paleontology in this classic episode.

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0:37.5	What were the Bone Wars?
0:39.2	Why am I asking you?
0:40.6	Because I'm the one who knows.
0:42.3	This episode was from August of 2019,
0:45.6	and it was all about the Bone Wars,
0:47.5	something I knew nothing about until we did this episode.
0:50.4	One of the top three reasons why I love this job.
0:53.6	I get just a little bit smarter every week, and I hope you do too.
0:56.8	Please enjoy.
1:02.4	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.
1:13.5	Hey, and welcome to the podcast.
1:17.8	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and there's Jerry over there.
1:19.6	And uh, rar.
1:25.5	That was a limp, limp laugh, Chuck.
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