Week 83

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Train-osaurus Rex. As the rail road cuts deeper into the Americas, strange monstrous creatures wait around every turn . It’s ‘Box Car ‘ Bills job to keep things on track.

when the Transcontinental railroad opened in the late 1800’s scientists could scavenge the land in search of fossils to prove Darwins theory of evolution…and make a ton of money in the process. Two such dinosaur hunters where Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope.

 

these two men where very different, Marsh was seen as a bit of a con man and a huckster who didn’t share credit with his own team while Cope seemed to be loved by friend and workers alike and often shared or gave away credit of the discoveries he found.

After Cope had made an introduction to a quarry owner where fossils could be found. Marsh went behind his back and struck up a secret deal for the site. taking all the money and prestige that came with it. Cope organised his own expeditions with inheritance money but found he was often spied on by Marshes men.