Selasa, 15 Agustus 2017

Good to the Old Bones: Dreaming Of Dinosaurs, Digging for Dollars

Paleontologists waged the 19th-century ‘Bone Wars’ with hired hands. Charles Hazelius Sternberg and Benjamin Franklin Mudge roamed the West making their livings with picks and shovels —but not prospecting for gold or silver. They were prospecting for fossils. While celebrated paleontologists Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope waged the so-called Bone Wars in the …

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