Philadelphia's Great Dinosaur Rush

The Bone Wars, also known as the Great Dinosaur Rush, was a period of intense and ruthlessly competitive fossil hunting during the Gilded Age. This period was marked by a heated rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope, a zoologist at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, and Othniel Charles Marsh of Natural History at Yale. Each of them resorting to bribery, theft, plagiarism, slander, and the destruction of fossils with dynamite. Join us as we dig into Philadelphia's divisive contribution to paleontology.