The reptilian giant found in England’s Stonesfield quarry needed a name. Throughout the 18th century and into the 19th, European naturalists in had been pondering strange and giant bones of long-dead ...

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 concepts, ...

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The Megalosaurus is essential to paleontology. Learn what discoveries made this dinosaur important. Though hardly a household name like Velociraptor or Tyrannosaurus rex, Megalosaurus holds a key ...

This English predator was among the first dinosaurs ever discovered—and, back in those early days of paleontology, its fearsome jaws must have fueled countless Victorian nightmares. The illustration ...

The upper and lower jaws of Duriavenator, illustrated when they were thought to belong to Megalosaurus, in A History of British Fossil Reptiles Vol. II. Image from Wikipedia If you have been following ...

When was the first dinosaur discovered? Megalosaurus marked our introduction to the “terrible lizards” that continue to fascinate us, even centuries later. In 2024, we commemorate a milestone in the ...

It's the 200th anniversary of when the first dinosaur was officially named. The first time a dinosaur was unearthed by humans and officially named was 200 years ago. Over the two centuries since the ...

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