Swap the bones for relics and make both of them inquisitors, you got yourself a decent 40k story

"Aren't Allosaurus and Brontosaurus in the same family?" No, my guy, no they are not. One's a Long Neck, the other's a Sharptooth.

Another silly thing related to paleontology: the spikes on the end of the stegosaurus' tail is called the thagomizer. It was a joke cartoonist Garry Larson made in his strip The Far Side until a paleontologist went "wait a minute, we don't actually have a name for that particular anatomy, that's a great idea!" and made it official.

Reminds me of the japanese archeologist, who accidentally forgot an entire period of japanese pre-history to put into account for their papers (which turned their incredible newsworthy discovery-of-the-century into just something embarressingly incorrect), that they sneaked into the national archive and DELETED EVERY FILE MENTIONING THE EXISTENCE of said time period, leaving national archology in shambles.

DK accidentally saying Allosaurus and Brontosaurus were related gave me a D6 worth of psychic damage.

This is some Trazyn/Orikan levels of pettiness. Goes to show you that scientists aren't always as cooperative and rational as we like to believe. Oftentimes, they're worse than the average person.

To clarify on the Apatosaurus/Brontosaurus thing - the fossil that was named Brontosaurus was later discovered to have the wrong head, since the original fossil was minus a head and they incorrectly assigned a skull from the same digsite to it later on. The Brontosaurus fossils were subsequently reclassified as Apatosaurus fossils. This was the status quo for quite a while, but in recent years new research had muddied the waters a bit and it turns out Brontosaurus might actually be its own species after all.

I'm a Ph.D student in paleontology, and I never thought I'd see a whole episode of my favorite podcast devoted to my field's most famous historical period! One of my favorite things to say nowadays is "make like a paleontologist and Edward Drinker COPE." I actually discovered a new species of dinosaur and the paper is coming out a week from Wednesday, so if you look for news on dinosaurs on the 24th after 11AM PST, you should see it! If y'all ever have any dinosaur-related questions or ever have need of a paleontologist for any reason, feel free to hit me up 😂

It is nice to see that the Paleontologists are just as crazy as the Anthropologists and Archeologists.

The story of these two men is told wonderfully in a graphic novel called "Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards" by Jim Ottaviani. One of the best I've ever read.

BONE SAW IS READY

These guys were legit just IRL Trazyn and Orokyn

DK, here’s one possible topic that’s pretty gruesome, it’s about a Man Eating Bear and the hunt for it in northern Japan: The Sankebetsu Brown Bear incident. Another pitch is the Battle for Ape Canyon! Cowboys vs Bigfoot!

This pettiness is like an extended scene from the infinite and the divine where marsh and cope are fighting over dead exodites

Hearing him call Apatosaurus, Appt-asaurus physically hurts my soul. Also yes, Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus did have a conflict between them that ended with the Brontosaurus fossils found being put under Apatosaurus, and the name being give to another sauropod much later on in the 2010's

If we’re talking about pettiness worthy of pertuabo, I hope you cover Aleister Crowley and his ‘magical battle’ on Olympia drive

Good work as usual D.K but you unfortunately left out the part where Marsh once said "Begun, the Bone Wars has"

Is that the war where our skeletons realize they are trapped inside us and fight their way out?

The fact that the Civil War was the second biggest grudge match at the time is hilarious to me.

These two drank nothing but Haterade for decades.

DK being a precious little man when he says that Palaeontology is a stable and sorted science.........tell that to Spinosauridae

As someone who loves dinosaurs and paleontology, getting to see the Bone Wars on here is amazing.

If you're interested in a story that is placed in this setting. Michael Crichton's "Dragon Teeth" is a historical fiction that takes the point of view of one of Marsh's students that he brings out on a dig in the Midwest United States. While a little on the fantastical side it is a very compelling read.

55:01 "Imagine how much it would've done for palontology if they found a way to cooperate" Not even that, just imagine how much paleontology would've advanced if they just competed WITHOUT blowing up their findings lmao

Ahhh, the Infinite & the Divine: Paleontology Edition.

If you want another story similar to that do research on what killed the dinosaurs and you'll be shocked the type of shenanigans that went on during the scientific publishing and between scientists

Starting to think that Perty might've genuinely enjoyed Paleontology as a hobby. If i'm not mistaken his ability to look at things and just "understand" their functionality only applied to machinery? Also, everyone of these detective episodes that come out it just reminds me that people are in fact just a bunch of monkeys and i love it.

I was painting Iron Warriors while listening to this, and goddamn did they remind me of Perturabo from the start lol Also, plz tell bricky he doesnt need no fancy metagear to watch/listen to stuff while doing chores or painting minis, i just had my laptop on the bed while i painted on the desk, safely away from any paint accidents.

I just want DK to know. This is hand down the most entertaining video this channel has ever put out. The comedy The craziness The entertainment The PASSION The fact that this actually happened. And how excited DK seemed All of it made me laugh and giggle. Thank you for making his video

All academic rivalries are like this. It’s all bitter bitter loathing of the other. Granted, these two are extreme, but by god is academic beef my favourite kind of beef.

The inspiration for the Galar fossil pokemon.

It's like the real world equivalent of a certain pair of Necron buddies

In names that are still valid today, Marsh has nineteen genera (the classification above the species, most of the dinosaurs you know are genera, the species name is rarely given for dinosaurs except for Tyranosaurus rex, Tyranosaurus is the genus name, rex is the species) and several dinosaur groups like Theropodes, Ceratopsians, Ornitscihians, etc... Cope has three valid genera today. But he published a record of 1400 scientific papers XD

I love how broad the topics are for detective ridiculous, another certified banger!

DK, here’s one possible topic that’s pretty gruesome, it’s about a Man Eating Bear and the hunt for it in northern Japan: The Sankebetsu Brown Bear incident. I recommend Bob Gymlan’s channel about it, really good art Another pitch is the Battle for Ape Canyon! Cowboys vs Bigfoot!

As a paleontologist myself, I always liked this very silly story. Glad you decided to do an episode on it.

You guys have to cover the tale of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. The "Miracle/tragedy of los Andes" a true tale of survival under allá odds. I'd LOVE to hear DK telling the sorry

Didn't this story make its way as a meme last month? Or am I going insane

With adeptus ridiculous winding down I do hope they keep the opening tone, I love that little jingle.

D.K. This was fantastic! I was riveted they entire time! Fascinating as always! Thank you Shy for editing and making the vids extra funny! Thanks Brick for being a captive audience! This was great!

damn these two almost single handedly found my entire Seraphon army

I’m a new fan that’s been binging Warhammer content for the last few months. Wanted to mix things up so I tried an episode of Detective Ridiculous. Big win, love this mixup of irl stories and DK driving the episodes.

Omg, 25:00 that was from the dinosaur magazine I read as a child. It had comics about Paleontologigists as well and a series of them were the Bone wars.

ONE TWO THREE FOUR I DECLARE A BONE WAR

I studied invertebrate paleontology for my MS and I absolutely love telling this mad hat story to people. I can absolutely tell you no one is crazier than a paleontologist/biologist with a hypothesis (source: I was/am one)

YES! This is going to be so ridiculous!!!! I love it!

41:03 no amount of discovery could nullify all the destruction and irreplaceable fossils lost because these two decided it was better to obliterate them than let the other discover something they couldn’t have.

The adventures of Cope and Seethe. The Infinite and the Divine, Earth edition.

What a great day to have another one

There is a famous lost fossil from the Bone Wars era named Amphicoelias fragillimus by Cope. It was just one incomplete vertebra from a sauropod dinosaur, but it was immense. For the longest time it was thought it could represent the largest known land animal of all time, but nobody could check Cope's measurements of it, because the actual fossil was lost in transit! All we have is the drawing Cope made of the bone at the dig site before it was shipped out. Nobody knows what happened to it. It could be that it was so fragile that it simply crumbled to dust on the way because, but one theory is that Marsh's goons destroyed it to rob him of the glory of discovering something that spectacular. As for Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus, which have long been assumed to be the same dinosaur that Marsh described as two separate ones to inflate his list of new dinosaur discoveries, they may in fact be separate genera. That means the name Brontosaurus is back in use for a single species of dinosaur which is slightly smaller than the bigger burlier Apatosaurus.

oh lord am i late. this went under in all the busyness of this week that i had but lets go we're talking about THE BONE ZO- *"reads title again"* THE BONE WARS!

I really enjoy DK's boomerisms, really works with his charm and narrative style

Fun episode! I know from one of the tabletop RPG groups I was with for the Call of Cthulhu RPG where a historian in the group found a lot of the really bizarre names people had n the Pennsylvania Dutch area of the US around the same time as the bone wars.

So Michael Crichton, the guy who wrote the Jurassic Park books, wrote a book called Dragon Teeth which is based on this rivalry. It’s pretty good

Not what I expected, but very interesting and fun.

Would love to see you guys do one on pale crawlers. The history and cryptids are really fun to listen to.

The level of hype i felt seeing this pop up in my feed could have cracked planets. instant click

This is the episode I didn't know I needed. ❤ from an amateur paleo.

This is now my favorite episode

Emperor Norton. I dare Y'all.

Was not expecting Pacific Rim to be described as a guilty pleasure. Pacific Rim Uprising maybe.

Read "Dragon teeth" from Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park), this rivalry features as a big part of the plot

20:40 This is the moment Cope became Seethe

People who can't read cursive cannot read old documents, it's a bad idea to forget

Wow I was given a saved-up series of booklets about paleontology when I was five and seeing those comics again was an experience.

I feel that his peers thought his hand writing wasn't to his background would suggest.

Its the real worlds version of Trazyn and Orican.

Oh hell yeah! The Bone Wars were wild.

Ya'll need to do one on the Lake City Quiet Pills incident...

Very interesting topic. I enjoy learning how figures in history both large and small. Provides some context and a little bit of retrospectiveness. Considering we could just through our lives here in 2024 not really ever considering the past and everything that leads up to the now.

The only Gentleman Naturalist I know of is Lord Blackwood from SCP and, apparently Teddy Roosevelt since he appears in one of Lord Blackwood's tales and is referred to as such.

Dude’s handwriting is better than 99% of people I’ve seen.

Oh the bone wars! This will be good.

I get excited for the newest episode of Dic Ric

FUCK YEAH BONE WARS.

I always find it funny that better handwriting is harder to read than bad handwriting

Omg we were just talking about this randomly yesterday what timing.

Did you know that Edward actually discovered a brand new element? Its called Copeium.

59:30 Have these two not heard of smart phones?

That was hilarious! Truth is stranger than fiction. Side note: I love that you guts make a few 40k references in this video. 😂❤👍

...is it just me, or is this _the best episode of __-Defective-__ Detective Ridiculous?!_ 😮 DK slayed this! 👏

Already know these mfs going to be giggling over Cope’s name

Aboubslotly loved this episode, me being a nerd on dinosaurs and other prehistoric life, found this a interesting story to listen to, especially being from the UK the birth place of palaeontology

2:27 Incredible, most guys don't make it past a minute

Bone Trousle intensifies

Yo the picture of the B-52 is from my old squadron at Barksdale AFB!!! Good chance I worked on it

Life finds a way

"Drinker-Cope" Me too bud

Hmmmm their "friendship" was so deep that they would name fossils after each other eh?

Tonight on AdeptusRidiculous! Bone daddy seethes over cope.

If you like the story of The Bone Wars, you should check out "Dragon's Teeth". It's Michael Crichton's final book and it revolves around The Bone Wars. Also, side note, if you like Pacific Rim check out the story of Monsterpocalypse and the movie that sorta didn't happen.

Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus were very similar, and eventually Brontosaurus was ruled to be another Apatosaurus specimen But then a few years ago, a big study of all the saurapod specimens was scanned and sorted into species by AI, and ruled that Brontosaurus was actually it's own species, so it's now back.

The Battle of The two Perturabos

"So now we're chill?" As long as nobody starts talking about Spinosaurus, yeah...

I just got a Quest 3 (also thanks to Skillup) and the cameras are good for what they are, but not good enough to do detail work. Dishwashing is about the most detailed task I could do with them.

30:15 Hey, now, Pacific Rim isn’t a guilty pleasure movie. That movie is objectively awesome.

I agree with Bricky. If those two had worked together, even if they hadn't discovered as many fossils, none of the fossils would have been BLOWN UP.

So I don’t know if anyone check these out but a good episode for later detective ridiculous could be the story the movie Pain and Gain is based off of. Basically three body builders decide to extort and kidnap a millionaire and end up screwing up tremendously. They were called the SunGym Gang, and by the Emperor its right up your guys alley for the show.

"The Meta Quest is too expensive" says the man who literally bought an Astraeus tank model while recording an episode of AdRic 🤣

AdRic "Jokes about Rogal Dorn", also AdRic "I can't read cursive".