British scientist William Buckland coined the name in 1824. Tuesday marks the 200th anniversary of the first dinosaur ever named, which changed the field of paleontology: The Megalosaurus. The ...
(CNN) — Huge fossilized bones that emerged from slate quarries in England’s Oxfordshire beginning in the late 1600s were immediately puzzling. In a world where evolution and extinction were unknown ...
When was the first dinosaur discovered? Megalosaurus marked our introduction to the “terrible lizards” that continue to fascinate us, even centuries later. Sara Novak is a science journalist and ...
Tuesday marks the 200th anniversary of the first dinosaur ever named, which changed the field of paleontology: The Megalosaurus. The dinosaur was named by William Buckland, a professor of geology at ...