abstract:The Bone Wars, also known as the "Great Dinosaur Rush",Martin, 66. refers to a period of intense fossil speculation and discovery during the Gilded Age of American history, marked by a heated rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope (of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia) and Othniel Charles Marsh (of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale).
So, supposedly, began the BoneWars, a 20-year struggle between two independently wealthy adventurers to dominate the field of paleontology by digging up the most dinosaurs.
Another is Dinosauria International, which has returned to the Wyoming territory where the BoneWars were mostly fought, in order to explore a Jurassic mud trap known as the Dana Quarry.