article_snippet.sent: In 1877, Marsh’s crew uncovered the bones of a species he dubbed Apatosaurus ajax.
article_snippet.sent: This was characterised by a race between paleontologists Edward Cope and Othniel Marsh defined the era to find dinosaur fossils.
article_snippet.sent: In 1877, Marsh’s crew uncovered the bones of a species he dubbed Apatosaurus ajax.
article_snippet.sent: In the 1870s, palaeontologists led by Othniel Charles Marsh discovered two enormous partial skeletons of long-necked dinosaurs in the US and shipped two enormous partial skeletons of long-necked dinosaurs in the US to the Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, Connecticut.
article_snippet.sent: Othniel Charles Marsh described the first of the creatures as Apatosaurus ajax, the 'deceptive lizard', after the Greek hero Ajax.
article_snippet.sent: Neither skeleton was found with a skull, and Othniel Charles Marsh reconstructed one for Brontosaurus excelsus.
article_snippet.sent: Shortly after Othniel Charles Marsh's death, scientists from the Yale Peabody Museum found another skeleton similar both to Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus.