Lectures on Tap - The Bone Wars: A Feud That Shaped American Paleontology

The Bone Wars — the bitter 19th-century rivalry between paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh — produced some of the most important fossil discoveries in American history, and some of its most spectacular professional wreckage.

Kate Schmidt, Gottesman Learning Center Manager and planetarium pilot at the American Museum of Natural History, traces how their cutthroat competition — marked by stolen fossils, public insults, and dramatic betrayals — reshaped the field and defined much of what we know about dinosaurs today. Schmidt also hosts and produces Biology on Tap, a monthly program bringing scientists to a Brooklyn bar.

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