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The first dinosaur was named 200 years ago. We know so much more now

By Will Dunham (Reuters) – On February 20, 1824, British naturalist and theologian William Buckland, addressing the Geological Society of London, described massive jaw and limb bones unearthed in a slate quarry in the village of Stonesfield, near Oxford. Buckland recognized that these fossils belonged to a giant reptile from the past and gave it… Read More »