Attendees at last year's ScienceWriters meeting mingled in the shadow of perhaps the most famous of all dinosaur fossils, the Peabody Museum's 67-foot brontosaurus (or apatosaurus, if you prefer). The man who brought it to Yale, O.C. Marsh, was among the nation's earliest celebrity scientists, largely because of his rivalry with fellow paleontologist E.D. Cope. In this post from Wired.com, Brian Switek discusses Marsh's life before the Cope feud hit the newspapers.
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