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TIL that the Bone Wars were a period in which two paleontologists, Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope, searched for dinosaur fossils competitively, to the point of bribery, theft and destroying bones to keep them away from each other. They discovered over 130 species, but both were financially ruined.

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