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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Apparently he discovered over a thousand vertebrate species and they even named Cope's Rule after him

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I was really hoping he was an alcoholic so I could make a nominative determinism joke, but apparently not

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

He's just like me fr fr

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Don't dox me like this charles-agony

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Eddy needy drinky

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wasn’t he one of the guys involved in the Bone Wars in the 1870s-ish? Dude’s name is almost synonymous with the word “dinosaur” in the US.

I think the Dollop did an episode on him.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah guy's life story and rivalry is fucking amazing. Kind of embodies America better than any of our other national legends or whatever. Just two petty scientists BSing and sometimes scamming their way to fame out of spite. Not that they didnt do genuine paleontology

Great, even-handed history of them https://youtu.be/nX0fZgPfB9s?t=638

I adore early paleontology

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: