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The Bone Wars: The Fossil Feud That Dinosaur Paleontology

In the late 19th century, the race to discover dinosaurs in the American West descended into a bitter, no-holds-barred feud. Rival paleontologists Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope used bribery, theft, and sabotage to outdo each other, all while publishing sensational finds in a war of …

The Bone-Rush Syndicate: How a Victorian Fossil War Built the CIA's First Spy Ring

What do dinosaur bones and Cold War espionage have in common? In the 1890s, two rival paleontologists, Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope, bankrupted themselves in a vicious feud to dominate American fossil discovery. But their legacy didn't end in a museum. Their sprawling networks of d…

The Bone Wars: When Scientists Sabotaged Each Other Over Dinosaurs

support the show https://patreon.com This week on The Darkives, we’re digging into one of the strangest rivalries in scientific history… and yeah, it gets way more chaotic than you’d expect. In the late 1800s, two paleontologists, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh, basically went to war…

455 - The Bone Wars

The Bone Wars, also known as the Great Dinosaur Rush, is what a period of intense fossil hunting in the late 19th century came to be called, thanks primarily to the intense and bitter rivalry between two of America's most prominent early paleontologists, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Mars…

Mammoth Cave, The Bone Wars, Paul the Octopus & Balloon Animal Mania

This week on The Oddities Department, history gets underground, overconfident, tentacled, and fully airborne. In Episode 21, Gavin and Lindsay take you through four bizarre true stories from the stranger corners of science, history, and human decision-making. First, we descend into Mammoth Cave, wh…

E487 A Non-Squatting Sasquatch and Skreeonk Facts (featuring Guest Host Steven Ray Morris)

It’s Episode 487 and today Em is joined by guest host Steven Ray Morris while Christine is away! To kick us off Em tells us the lore of the Buena Park Monster (aka Buena Foot), a sewer dwelling sasquatch near Knotts Berry Farm. Then Steven brings us a creature related crime story with the tale of t…

Dino-Mite: The Bone Wars

Episode 100 calls for a toast, but we’re not celebrating with a feel-good story. We’re cracking open a classic beer and digging into the Bone Wars, a late-1800s feud so petty and so destructive that it makes modern internet drama look quaint. Picture the American West baking in the heat, a dinosaur…

#27 - Posthumously Petty Paleontologist

What's a satisfyingly petty revenge story where petty behaviors backfires? Robin kicks things off by telling us about her petty plane experience. Then, Tita Lors tells us the tale of Edward Drinker Cope vs Othniel Charles Marsh, the paleontologists who collectively discovered 126 new dinosaur speci…

Dragon Avatars: Dinosaurs, Fallen Angels, Reptilians & The Bone Wars

What if the dinosaurs weren’t just prehistoric animals—but biological vessels for something much older? In this episode of Free The Rabbits, Joel explores the connections between dinosaurs, the biblical Seraphim, fallen angels and the serpent traditions found throughout the ancient world. We dig …

Episode 34 - "Should I sit up straight? Part 2

Welcome, gentle listeners, to the second sacral brain of the two-part episode that attempts to answer whether we should sit up straight. Enter (if you dare) into a body of literature where bones are rocks, psychology is tectonics, and you can never be sure if a cited historical figure is a legitima…