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Wikipedia: Bone Wars - Tells how Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh came to compete in the discovery of dinosaur bones, and the havoc they caused.
Academy of Natural Sciences: Bone Wars - The Cope-Marsh Rivalry - How the competition between Marsh and Cope had an dramatic but mixed impact on American paleontology.
Wyoming: The Bone Wars - An illustrated history of the Bone Wars. It includes photos taken from 1904 - 1934 and includes reproductions of engravings from 1871.
Haddonfield and the 'Bone Wars' - Information about how the war of dinosaur discovery between Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh began in Haddonfield, N.J. in 1868.
Wyoming Tales and Trails: The Bone Wars - Tells of the fossil collecting competition between Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope. It includes photos taken from 1904 - 1934 and includes reproductions of engravings from 1871.
Finding the World's First Dinosaur Skeleton - Recounts the story of William Parker Foulke discovering the first nearly-complete skeleton of a dinosaur, the "Bone Wars" that followed, and the history of the site in Haddonfield, New Jersey.
The Niagara Falls Museum: The Profile of Edward Drinker Cope - Article by author Mark Jaffe tells us about Cope's Law, his discoveries, his works, and his feud with Marsh.
The UnMuseum: Whatever Happened to the Brontosaurus? - Explains that the brontosaurus is actually an apatosaurus with the head of a camarasaurus. It recounts how this happened.

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Bone Wars (book) - Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie's Dinosaur is a nonfiction book by Tom Rea detailing the late-Victorian scientific drama surrounding one of the most famous—and notorious—dinosaur skeletons ever discovered: Diplodocus carnegii, a species named for his patron Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919), the ...
Bone Wars - The Bone Wars were an infamous period in the history of paleontology when the two pre-eminent paleontologists of the time, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh, competed to see who could find the most, and more sensational, new species of dinosaur. This competition was marred by bribery, politics, ...
Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards - Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards: A Tale of Edward Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh, and the Gilded Age of Paleontology is a graphic novel written by Jim Ottaviani and illustrated by Big Time Attic. The book tells the somewhat-fictionalized yet true story of the Bone Wars, a period of intense excavation, speculation, and rivalry which led to a greater understanding of dinosaurs in the western United States.
Garden Park, Colorado - Garden Park, in southcentral Colorado, is world famous for its Jurassic dinosaurs and the role the specimens played in the infamous bone wars of the late 1800s. Located 10 km (6 miles) north of Cañon City, Colorado, the name originates from the area providing vegetables to the miners at nearby Cripple Creek in the 1800s.
Hesperornis - Hesperornis is an extinct genus of flightless aquatic birds that lived during the Coniacian to Maastrichtian sub-epochs of the Late Cretaceous (89-65 mya). One of the lesser known discoveries of Marsh in the late 19th century Bone Wars, it was an important early find in the history of avian paleontology.