On July 28, 1840, the famous American paleontologist Edward Deklin Kop was born

Focusing on the study of vertebrate fossils in the United States, Science Popularizer excavated more than 1,000 new species, including extinct animals, during his lifetime. A total of 56 species of dinosaurs were discovered by popular science. He first named sauropods and theropods.

Kopp was born in Philadelphia to a Quaker family.

He had a keen interest in science since he was a child, publishing his first scientific paper as a teenager.

In the 1870s and 1880s he became a member of the United States Geological Survey.

During his lifetime, Hep published 1,400 papers describing and naming more than 1,000 species of vertebrates, including hundreds of species of fish and dozens of dinosaurs. His theory of the origin of mammalian molars has been particularly important to the scientific community. The Copp's Law hypothesis of evolutionary biology is named after him.

Focusing on vertebrate fossil research in the United States, He unearthed more than 1,000 new species, including extinct animals, during his lifetime. A total of 56 species of dinosaurs were discovered by popular science.

He once fought a "Bone Wars" with another dinosaur researcher, Ossenel Challis Marsh, to compete for the discovery of new fossils.

Popular science pays more attention to the study of dinosaur appearance and living habits. He first named sauropods and theropods, proposed that sauropods might have lived in water, and studied the theropods (carnivorous dinosaurs) when they hunted other dinosaurs. All of this has broadened the horizons of dinosaur research.

He died on 12 April 1897.

Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840 – April 12, 1897) was an American paleontologist, comparative anatomist, reptile, and ichthyologist.

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