The Modern Bone Wars

If you like paleontology then you’ve probably heard of the infamous Bone Wars, but have you heard of the modern Bone Wars?

In the 90s, Chinese and American paleontologists were in a competitive race to find the missing link between dinosaurs and birds. Whoever found it was going to be very rich and very famous. A British dinosaur enthusiast bought a fossil from a China for 80K that had the legs of a dinosaur and the arms of a bird. National Geographic broke the news that the missing link was f