Cope and Marsh | Boneblogger: Science and the outdoors https://boneblogger.com Exploring the natural world Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:21:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Dinosaurs dragging their bellies—Huh? https://boneblogger.com/dinosaurs-dragging-their-bellies%e2%80%94huh/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dinosaurs-dragging-their-bellies%25e2%2580%2594huh Thu, 27 May 2010 00:38:03 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=1307 Isaac Newton famously wrote in 1676,“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” This gets to the heart of the scientific process—a gradual addition and refinement of human knowledge and understanding of the natural world. But, of course, sometimes even giants had wacky ideas. The particular “giant” to whom […]

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]]> Giant Short-Faced Bear: a Northern California Original https://boneblogger.com/giant-short-faced-bear-a-northern-california-original/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=giant-short-faced-bear-a-northern-california-original Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:55:59 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=28 In 1878, James D. Richardson explored Potter Creek Cave in Shasta County, California. He found the skull of a bear beneath several inches of cave dirt, and he sent the specimen to Edward D. Cope, who determined that it was the type specimen for a new species of American “cave bear” (Cope, 1879). When a […]

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