The first dinosaur was named 200 years ago. We know so much more now
By Will Dunham (Reuters) – On February 20, 1824, English naturalist and theologian William Buckland addressed the Geological Society of London, describing enormous jaw and limb bones unearthed from a slate quarry in the village of Stonesfield near Oxford. Buckland recognized that these fossils belonged to a huge, bygone reptile, and gave it a formal … Read more