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In the mid-nineteenth century a nearly-complete dinosaur skeleton was found in New Jersey. This sparked interest in the search for dinosaur bones and two men, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh, began a vicious competition to see who could make the most significant discoveries. This has been called the Bone Wars.

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• Haddonfield and the 'Bone Wars'

  http://www.levins.com/bwars.shtml
  Information about how the war of dinosaur discovery between Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh began in Haddonfield, N.J. in 1868.

• The UnMuseum: Whatever Happened to the Brontosaurus?

  http://www.unmuseum.org/dinobront.htm
  Explains that the brontosaurus is actually an apatosaurus with the head of a camarasaurus. It recounts how this happened.

• Wikipedia: Bone Wars

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_Wars
  Tells how Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh came to compete in the discovery of dinosaur bones, and the havoc they caused.

• Wyoming: The Bone Wars

  http://www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com/bonewars2.html
  An illustrated history of the Bone Wars. It includes photos taken from 1904 - 1934 and includes reproductions of engravings from 1871.

 

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