Spotting dino bones on Cow Island - O'Hanlon's heroes

In the fourth episode of the first season, O'Hanlon travels behind the explorer Edward Drinker Cope (1840 - 1897). Cope was paleontologist and Christian, nevertheless eager to provide evidence for Darwin's theory of evolution.

The 4,370-mile-long Missouri River is the longest river in North America; rises in the Rocky Mountains and ends in the Mississippi. We boarded the boat a day ago, after an endless bumpy trip by jeep from our lodge, on unpaved roads under dark, sinister skies. Our mission: spotting dino bones, in the footsteps of paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897). He camped around 1876 in this area to hunt for fossils. His motivation was twofold. In one hand, like many colleagues at that time, he was driven by the ambition to provide evidence for Darwin's newly published theory of evolution, but on the other hand he wanted to compete against his fellow scientists and write the biggest discovery possible at his name. Nothing human was strange to him. Where we are now was the right place for this, the rocks here at Cow Island are full of archaeological treasures.

Original title: De Bottenoorlog
Author and adventurer Redmond O'Hanlon follows in the footsteps of his nineteenth century heroes: explorers who traveled the world and made the wildest discoveries.
Presented by: Redmond O'Hanlon
© VPRO December 2011

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