Brontosaurus lived

The Bone Wars are infamous. Between the 1870s to the 1890s, two paleontologists, Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope, had a rivalry that eventually ruined them but also made dinosaurs mainstream. (The story is so good, a movie was almost made about it in 2013, and it would have starred Steve Carell as Cope and James Gandolfini as Marsh.)

Before the Bone Wars, dinosaurs were not that popular.

Only nine species of dinosaurs had been named, and mostly isolated teeth and skeletal fragments had been found.

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But after Marsh and Cope, and their rush to name new species, even going so far as to bribe, steal, and destroy bones to prevent each other from “winning,” (there are rumors they spied on each other and one rumor that Marsh stole a railway car of bones, though there’s no evidence for that one), they named 144 species.

Only 32 are still considered valid.

Marsh and Cope are often depicted in different ways. Marsh was a loner, very suspicious of people, and worked slowly and