Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist, geologist, and biologist (1840–1897)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Nineteenth-century paleontologist who named over 1,200 new species and became obsessed with dinosaurs before most people knew they existed. Published his first paper at 19 and never really stopped, turning a Quaker fortune into an endless fossil hunt.
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Edward Drinker Cope was an American zoologist, paleontologist, comparative anatomist, herpetologist, and ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, he distinguished himself as a child prodigy interested in science, publishing his first scientific paper at the age of 19. Though his father tried to raise Cope as a gentleman farmer, he eventually acquiesced to his son's scientific aspirations.
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