So, supposedly, began the Bone Wars, a 20-year struggle between two independently wealthy adventurers to dominate the field of paleontology by digging up the most dinosaurs.

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Another is Dinosauria International, which has returned to the Wyoming territory where the Bone Wars were mostly fought, in order to explore a Jurassic mud trap known as the Dana Quarry.

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Yet neither banquets nor bone wars could match the 1902 discovery of T. rex in terms of hype and hyperbole.

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