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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

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

[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ElectronNumberSeven@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

He's just like me fr fr

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Don't dox me like this charles-agony

[-] CredibleBattery@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Eddy needy drinky

[-] Southloop@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Vncredleader@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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