Bitter Rivalry facts
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The Bone Wars was a spectacularly dirty, competitive period of fossil hunting, marked by a bitter, destructive rivalry between 2 collectors who used nefarious means to outdo each other incl. spying, bribery & theft. Both were financially & socially ruined by their attempts to disgrace the other.
MIT and CalTech maintain a "bitter" rivalry despite being 3,000 miles apart. Unlike most rivalries, it's based largely on pranks--including the theft and transport of an antique cannon from one campus to the other, and the appearance of a "TARDIS" on top of a student hall.
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The Brontosaurus never actually existed, but was mistakenly "discovered" as a product of a bitter rivalry between two competing paleontologists.
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Paleontologists E.D. Cope and O.C. Marsh had such a bitter rivalry during the "Bone Wars", that before dying, Cope donated his skull to science to measure his brain, as to prove it was larger than Marsh's. Marsh declined, and Cope's skull is still preserved at the Pennsylvania University.
