Yet they did both discover many new species. Strictly speaking, Marsh won the "Bone Wars", with 80 new types of dinosaur to his name, against Cope's 56. Cope left his own skull to science in the ...

For E.D. Cope and O.C. Marsh, acclaimed paleontologists searching to discover new dinosaur bones, the West was virgin territory, rich with fossils yet to be uncovered. The region's arid climate ...

Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope were the two most prominent dinosaur specialists of the 1800s—and bitter enemies. They burned through money, funding expeditions to Western badlands ...

In the mid-19th century, paleontologists scrambling for fossils focused more on the prehistoric ancestors of contemporary creatures than on dinosaurs ... Marsh, Darwin expresses his thanks for ...