Bone Wars: The True Story of an Epic Battle to Find Dinosaur Fossils

This nonfiction picture book recounts the rivalry between early paleontologists Marsh and Cope. Once colleagues, they became competitors in their search for dinosaur fossils. Together they discovered more than one hundred species, but their conflict also created confusion that affected dinosaur identification for decades. The book presents this episode as both a story of scientific discovery and a cautionary account of competition.