Chapter 1
The giants of the Jurassic West
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Chapter 2
The tyrants of the Cretaceous coast
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Chapter 3
The bizarre beasts of the East
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Chapter 4
The bone wars and the fossil rush
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YOUR GOAL
Master of Dinosaurs of ancient America
Ch 4 · The bone wars and the fossil rush
artiteacher The Bone Wars
Bone Wars, Bone Wars! Rivals dug for glory! Found so many new dino stories!
Fun Fact
Bone Wars destruction: During the Bone Wars, rival digging teams sometimes used dynamite to blow up fossil sites to keep them from falling into enemy hands.
Glossary
fossil (noun)
The preserved remnant, impression, or trace of an organism from a past geologic age. In the late 1800s, Edward Cope and Othniel Marsh fiercely competed to excavate these specimens.
The preserved remnant, impression, or trace of an organism from a past geologic age. In the late 1800s, Edward Cope and Othniel Marsh fiercely competed to excavate these specimens.
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Which Wyoming site became famous in 1877 as a major battleground for fossil hunters?
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Approximately how many new dinosaur species did Cope and Marsh discover during their feud?
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What mistake did Othniel Charles Marsh make when reconstructing the first Brontosaurus?
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What extreme method did rival diggers sometimes use to prevent the other team from getting fossils?
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Before the American Bone Wars, which continent was the global center of dinosaur research?
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What was the name of the intense 19th-century paleontological rivalry between Cope and Marsh?
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Which dinosaur's head did Marsh mistakenly place on the body of his Brontosaurus?