Dinosaur Wars (film)
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''Dinosaur Wars'' is a documentary film created by PBS as an episode for ''
American Experience ''American Experience'' is a television program airing on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States. The program airs documentaries, many of which have won awards, about important or interesting events and people in American his ...
''. The video details the
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between Edward Cope and
O. C. Marsh Othniel Charles Marsh (October 29, 1831 – March 18, 1899) was an American professor of Paleontology in Yale College and President of the National Academy of Sciences. He was one of the preeminent scientists in the field of paleontology. Among h ...
. Cope and Marsh were paleontologists who uncovered
dinosaur Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago (mya), although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is t ...
fossils in the late 19th century. The episode had been broadcast by PBS in January 2011. PBS later posted the video online in July 2011. The episode has been covered in online articles posted by ''
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