Tooth & Claw: The Dinosaur Wars

This history recounts the rivalry between paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh as they competed to find fossils in the American West. Their race unfolded while ideas about dinosaurs and extinct species were still emerging. Between them, the two scientists discovered dozens of major dinosaur species and helped establish paleontology in America. The book places their competition and intrigue within nineteenth-century America and includes photographs and extensive back matter.