# Joseph Leidy

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452: Examining the Evolution of Host Specificity in Plant-Eating Insects - Dr. Douglas Futuyma

Dr. Douglas Futuyma is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University. He also holds an appointment as a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History. Throughout his career, Douglas has been fascinated by evolution and how species adap…

04 BONE WARS!

Scientists are motivated by curiosity, by the desire to help their fellow humans, by compulsion and, sometimes, by irrational personal vendettas. Edward Drinker Cope and Othneil Charles Marsh were two leading paleontologists during the late 1800s, and discovered approximately 130 species between th…

New Jersey’s Dinosaur: The Hadrosaurus foulkii

In this episode, Sharon shares the fascinating story behind New Jersey’s Hadrosaurus foulkii, the first full dinosaur skeleton to be discovered anywhere in the world. The skeleton was unearthed in 1858 when naturalist William Parker Foulke was vacationing in Haddonfield, New Jersey. At the time, ve…

"Joseph Leidy" with Leonard Warren

Contemporaries of the modest and unassuming scientist Joseph Leidy (1823–91) revered him as the supreme consultant in questions relating to human anatomy, paleontology, protozoology, parasitology, anthropology, mineralogy, botany, and numerous other scientific fields. Leidy's achievements and the b…

William Wagner: Free Science for All

Biographical Bytes from Bala #025 William Wagner was a self-taught naturalist and a very rich man who believed in giving free education to anyone who wanted it.  He opened his Wagner Free Institute of Science in 1855 and used his own collection as teaching aids – flora and fauna from around the wo…

SAH - The Bone Wars

Imgur Album: https://imgur.com/a/1xDl8iEThe video I sent Aleks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHpfGf_bFps Talking Points: Edward Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh, Joseph Leidy,dog hecking robloxoof irl bridge,old man yaoi,the netflix adaptation,kids just want a hand out (gets 250 acres from th…

How Do You Portray A Dinosaur?

We have portraits of people in our galleries. But what if you’re a natural science museum? How do you portray a dinosaur?  We talk with Kirk Johnson, Sant Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, about the ways our portrayals of dinosaurs have evolved, from sluggish and liz…

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…