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PART 1 Thomas Jefferson and his Ground Sloth fav.me/d7g6m1e

PART 2 Mary Anning and her Ichthyosaur fav.me/d7ybszx

PART 3 Charles Darwin and his Toxodon fav.me/d80hum8

PART 4 Gideon Mantell and his Iguanodon fav.me/d826xjg

PART 5 William Buckland and his Megalosaur fav.me/d83zg9s

PART 6 Hermann von Meyer and his Archaeopteryx fav.me/d86761e

PART 7 Georges Cuvier and his Mastodon fav.me/d88cp56

PART 8 Edward D. Cope and his Dimetrodon fav.me/d89umu9

PART 9 Othniel C. Marsh and his Triceratops

PART 10 Eduard Suess and his Struthiosaurus fav.me/d8e0aqc

PART 11 Richard Owen and his Gorgonops fav.me/d8g9cbf

PART 12 Johann Blumenbach and his Megaloceros fav.me/d8if1nn

PART 13 Barbara Rawdon-Hastings and her Diplocynodon fav.me/d8ks10o

PART 14 Wilhelm Lund and his Smilodon fav.me/d8lk4x6

PART 15 Lawrence Lambe and his Edmontosaurus fav.me/d8s02lr
PART 16 Edmond Hebert and his Gastornis fav.me/d90r8ay

PART 17 Joseph Leidy and his Direwolf fav.me/d9598c5

PART 18 Barnum Brown and his T-Rex fav.me/d977xsf

PART 19 Immanuel Walch and his Trilobites fav.me/d9a1qc9

You will like this one Edward – at least it is obvious where the head goes!

Walk up to a random person and ask them about the Dinosaurs they know – I bet a great number of them were discovered/named by this paleontologist. Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, Allosaurus, Ornithomimus, “Brontosaurus” that is just a small sample of the amazing lineup of Dinosaurs discovered or named by Othniel Charles Marsh or Big Bone Chief as he was known among his Native American friends.

Marsh was born in 1831 in the state of New York and later studied Geology, Mineralogy and Paleontology. In 1866 he was made professor of vertebrate Paleontology at Yale. He corresponded with Charles Darwin and also provided some of the earliest proof for Evolution – the family tree of the horse. He also studied cretaceous birds and hypothesized that birds are descendants from Dinosaurs.

But now back to the Bone Wars. After falling out with his former friend Edward D. Cope Marsh went west together with his scout and good friend William Cody – better known as Buffalo Bill. After discovering lots of mammalian fossils in Kansas and buying the digging rights at the Uinta Mountains in 1876 Marsh turned towards the Black Hills in Sioux territory. Although Cope was the first to find dinosaurs the year the sheer quantity of Marsh’s fossils soon dwarfed them. Huge wagon trails transported tons of fossils to Yale, where Marsh’s uncle, George Peabody, had built him a museum.

Marsh now became friends with Chief Red Cloud of the Sioux, he promised him that he would speak up for his people in Washington and actually managed to improve their situation. Red Cloud would later visit Marsh at New Haven and called him “the best white man I have ever known”.

In the 1880s a big wave of discoveries for both Cope and Marsh finally lead to the public taking interest in the affair. In a series of newspaper Articles they threw horrendous accusations at each other. There were even restrictions put on both, to keep them from publishing too much. The Bone Wars finally ended with Cope dying in 1897, Marsh followed in 1899.

Who “won” the war is a matter of perspective. They both found enormous amounts of fossils and named countless new species. And while Marsh named more famous Dinosaurs, Cope surpassed him in publishing. But we can all agree that Cope and Marsh had changed Paleontology forever.

Here is a photograph of Marsh with chief Red Cloud:

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PART 1 Thomas Jefferson and his Ground Sloth fav.me/d7g6m1e

PART 2 Mary Anning and her Ichthyosaur fav.me/d7ybszx

PART 3 Charles Darwin and his Toxodon fav.me/d80hum8

PART 4 Gideon Mantell and his Iguanodon fav.me/d826xjg

PART 5 William Buckland and his Megalosaur fav.me/d83zg9s

PART 6 Hermann von Meyer and his Archaeopteryx fav.me/d86761e

PART 7 Georges Cuvier and his Mastodon fav.me/d88cp56

PART 8 Edward D. Cope and his Dimetrodon fav.me/d89umu9

PART 9 Othniel C. Marsh and his Triceratops

PART 10 Eduard Suess and his Struthiosaurus fav.me/d8e0aqc

PART 11 Richard Owen and his Gorgonops fav.me/d8g9cbf

PART 12 Johann Blumenbach and his Megaloceros fav.me/d8if1nn

PART 13 Barbara Rawdon-Hastings and her Diplocynodon fav.me/d8ks10o

PART 14 Wilhelm Lund and his Smilodon fav.me/d8lk4x6

PART 15 Lawrence Lambe and his Edmontosaurus fav.me/d8s02lr
PART 16 Edmond Hebert and his Gastornis fav.me/d90r8ay

PART 17 Joseph Leidy and his Direwolf fav.me/d9598c5

PART 18 Barnum Brown and his T-Rex fav.me/d977xsf

PART 19 Immanuel Walch and his Trilobites fav.me/d9a1qc9

You will like this one Edward – at least it is obvious where the head goes!

Walk up to a random person and ask them about the Dinosaurs they know – I bet a great number of them were discovered/named by this paleontologist. Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, Allosaurus, Ornithomimus, “Brontosaurus” that is just a small sample of the amazing lineup of Dinosaurs discovered or named by Othniel Charles Marsh or Big Bone Chief as he was known among his Native American friends.

Marsh was born in 1831 in the state of New York and later studied Geology, Mineralogy and Paleontology. In 1866 he was made professor of vertebrate Paleontology at Yale. He corresponded with Charles Darwin and also provided some of the earliest proof for Evolution – the family tree of the horse. He also studied cretaceous birds and hypothesized that birds are descendants from Dinosaurs.

But now back to the Bone Wars. After falling out with his former friend Edward D. Cope Marsh went west together with his scout and good friend William Cody – better known as Buffalo Bill. After discovering lots of mammalian fossils in Kansas and buying the digging rights at the Uinta Mountains in 1876 Marsh turned towards the Black Hills in Sioux territory. Although Cope was the first to find dinosaurs the year the sheer quantity of Marsh’s fossils soon dwarfed them. Huge wagon trails transported tons of fossils to Yale, where Marsh’s uncle, George Peabody, had built him a museum.

Marsh now became friends with Chief Red Cloud of the Sioux, he promised him that he would speak up for his people in Washington and actually managed to improve their situation. Red Cloud would later visit Marsh at New Haven and called him “the best white man I have ever known”.

In the 1880s a big wave of discoveries for both Cope and Marsh finally lead to the public taking interest in the affair. In a series of newspaper Articles they threw horrendous accusations at each other. There were even restrictions put on both, to keep them from publishing too much. The Bone Wars finally ended with Cope dying in 1897, Marsh followed in 1899.

Who “won” the war is a matter of perspective. They both found enormous amounts of fossils and named countless new species. And while Marsh named more famous Dinosaurs, Cope surpassed him in publishing. But we can all agree that Cope and Marsh had changed Paleontology forever.

Here is a photograph of Marsh with chief Red Cloud:

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…

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