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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 ...

Dinosaurs are all around us, figuratively and literally speaking. Most of these diverse creatures went extinct 66 million years ago, but the ancient ancestors of modern birds are ingrained in the ...

An artist's impression of how Victorian palaeontologists thought the Megalosaurus looked (right) and how modern scientists understand it to have looked (left) Scientists are celebrating the 200th ...

In 1988, a little more than a century after O.C. Marsh first described it, Allosaurus was declared to be the state fossil of Utah. What fewer people know, however, is that seven years before Marsh ...

In the early 1800s, the discovery of strange bones in England led to one of science’s greatest revelations - the Megalosaurus. Once thought to be a giant reptile or dragon, it became the first ...

WASHINGTON — A dinosaur fossil at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is celebrating a big achievement for one of its fossils. Its fossilized skeleton of the Jurassic dinosaur ...

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