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Artist: The Paleos
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Bone Wars
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Bone Wars
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Let me tell the story of two proud and crazy men
That brought a furious battle, and a glorious golden age
Othniel Charles Marsh, and Edward Drinker Cope
Crazy dino hunters they just wanna dig them all
One from Pennsylvania, and the other one from Yale
Both are so ambitious, they don’t want to fail
Like the Sioux warriors, fighting to the end
Cope started all, with an Elasmosaurus head
With a cook, a guide and three companions
Cope was a fighter, scientific writer
Marsh, with a paleo legion, sitting on the sofa
Both started the
Bone wars!
Destruction!
Dynamite!
Brake!
The rivalry between them was the pathway to their fame
They said if you work in paleo, you must be insane
Thievery and sickness, fossils at the site
130 species, dinosaurs for the fight
Spying the other foe, dynamiting the career of both
Bones were a great deal, but you could get killed
Publications on the run, like they make them spawn
They couldn’t cope (ha ha)
Hold my fossil
Bone wars!
Destruction!
Dynamite!
Brake!
Cuvier (Cuvier)
Anisonchus cophater (Anisonchus cophater)
False jaw (false jaw)
False fragillimus (false fragillimus)
With a cook, a guide and three companions
Cope was a fighter, scientific writer
Marsh, with a paleo legion sitting on the sofa
Both started the
Bone wars!
Destruction!
Dynamite!
Brake!
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