Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh started out as friends who shared a fascination with dinosaur bones and then ended up into rivals. Since they were both digging in the same places, their teams were often in the other's way and there are at least two recorded occasions when violent fights broke out. They'd even go and try to sabotage the other's site with tnt, blowing up potential discoveries so the other wouldn't get to it. However, their recklessness in the field was nothing compared to the poor work they did labeling the fossils once they brought them back.
Between the two of them, they managed to "discover" the same fossil of Uintatherium about 20 times, naming it something different each time. Cole and Marsh didn't limit their competition to dinosaur bones; they wrote countless articles trying to insult the other, often without any care about proper research. It took decades to revise all their discoveries and put all the skeletons back together the way they were actually dug up. And there's no telling how many valuable fossils were destroyed by these guys launching bombs at each other's site.
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