The First discovery of Dinosaur in History!

Dinosaurs were first discovered in the early 19th century when fossils of large, extinct reptiles began to emerge in Europe. The discovery of Megalosaurus in 1824 by William Buckland is often credited as the first scientific description of a dinosaur. Shortly after, fossils of Iguanodon (identified by Gideon Mantell in 1825) and Hylaeosaurus further fueled the study of these ancient creatures.

The term "dinosaur" was officially coined in 1842 by Sir Richard Owen, derived from the Greek words deinos (terrible) and sauros (lizard), meaning "terrible lizard." These discoveries marked the beginning of paleontology as a scientific field.
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