Summary
Tracey Logan takes us back to the wild west of America, and looks at the extraordinary feud that came to be known as the Bone Wars. This is a tale of corruption, bribery and sabotage - not by cowboys, but by two palaeontologists, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh, who would stop at nothing in their race to find new dinosaur fossils. This was the golden age of dinosaur discovery, and their bitter war led to the discovery of some of our most iconic dinosaur species: Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Diplodocus and Camarasuarus to name a few. What led these two seemingly respectable men of science to behave in such an unseemly way, and what was the legacy of this now infamous feud? Tracey Logan investigates.
(Photo: Drawing of Apatosaurus dinosaur, BBC Copyright)
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| 0:25.0 | You're listening to Discovery. broadcasts. as a tale of bitter scientific rivalry and a disappearing dinosaur. Now you see it. No you don't. |
| 0:27.0 | Excuse me. |
| 0:30.0 | Do you know where the Brontosaurus is? |
| 0:32.0 | Brontosaurus? |
| 0:35.0 | No, no, we are tourists from Holland. |
| 0:38.0 | Oh, do you know where the Brontosaurus is? |
| 0:40.0 | The Brontasseaus, no, I don't know. |
| 0:42.0 | Where he is. |
| 0:43.0 | Okay, okay, thank you. I'll ask someone else. |
| 0:45.0 | Excuse me, have you seen the Brontosaurus? |
| 0:48.0 | No. No. No. |
| 0:49.0 | No. |
| 0:50.0 | I think it's there. |
| 0:51.0 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:52.0 | I don't know. Excuse me, have you seen the brontosaurus? No. No. Any idea where I should look for it? Not a clear at this point, trying to find it ourselves. |
| 1:01.0 | Well, you won't find a bronze source in this museum because we don't actually have one. |
| 1:06.0 | But equally at the moment you won't find a bronze source labeled as such anywhere in the world. |
| 1:11.0 | And that's because for many years, the name Bronosaurus has been sunk. |
| 1:14.8 | Instead it's been regarded as just another example of a different name, an animal called |
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