Othniel Charles Marsh
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Othniel Charles Marsh was an American professor of paleontology. A prolific fossil collector, Marsh was one of the preeminent paleontologists of the nineteenth century. Among his legacies are the disc
Marsh, 1865–1880
Othniel Marsh (center, back row) and assistants ready for digging in 1872
Marsh and Lakota Chief Red Cloud in New Haven, Connecticut, c. 1880
Hesperornis regalis, a species of ancient flightless bird with teeth, as drawn by Othniel Marsh, and published in his book, Odontornithes: A Monograph on the Extinct Toothed Birds of North America
Bone Wars
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The Bone Wars, also known as the Great Dinosaur Rush, was a period of intense and ruthlessly competitive fossil hunting and discovery during the Gilded Age of American history, marked by a heated riva
Othniel Charles Marsh
…From the 1870s to 1890s, he competed with rival paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope in a period of frenzied Western American expeditions known as the Bone Wars. Marsh's greatest legacy is the collection of Mesozoic reptiles, Cretaceous birds, and Mesozoic and Tertiary mammals that now constitute the backbone…
The rivalry between Othniel Charles Marsh (left) and Edward Drinker Cope (right) sparked the Bone Wars.
The Morrison Formation at Como Bluff, Wyoming
Arthur Lakes's sketch of expedition members W.H. Reed (left) and Edward Kennedy in Como Bluff