#Fossils

Adherents argue that dinosaurs as the public pictures them were assembled in the nineteenth century from partial bones, artists' guesses and a race between rival collectors, then kept alive by museum casts. They point to Owen's 1842 naming, the 1854 Crystal Palace sculptures, the Marsh and Cope feud, the Archaeoraptor composite, AMNH's fiberglass titanosaur and young-earth soft-tissue claims.