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People have been finding dinosaur fossils for hundreds of years, probably even thousands of years. There are references to "dragon" bones found in Wucheng, Sichuan, China (written by Chang Qu) over 2,000 years ago; these were probably dinosaur fossils.
Much later, in 1676, a huge thigh bone (femur) was found in England by Reverend Plot. It was thought that the bone belonged to a "giant," but was probably from a dinosaur. A report of this find was published by R. Brookes in 1763.
The first dinosaur to be described scientifically was Megalosaurus in 1824, by William Buckland. Buckland (1784-1856) was a British fossil hunter and clergyman who discovered some Megalosaurus fossils in 1819 and named the reptile in 1824. It was the first dinosaur ever described scientifically and first theropod dinosaur discovered (this is all in hindsight, because the dinosaurs had not yet been recognized as a separate taxonomic group - the word dinosaur hadn't even been invented yet).
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What dinosaur bones were found first and what dinosaur was it from?
iguanadon in 1883 in England
Where have dinosaurs remains have not been found?
there were dinosaur fossils and bones found.
Did anyone find dinosaur bones found in Ireland?
no
Who discovered Utah's first dinosaur bones?
Earl Douglass discovered utah's first dinosaur
Who found first dinosaur?
William Buckland found megalosaurus as the first dinosaur.
Are dinosaur bones and fossils still being found?
yes
What country in Asia has found the most dinosaur bones?
it is china
Where are dinosour bones commonly found?
well most popular dinosaur bones(like the t-rex) are found in the USA
What some of the scienctist who found dinosaur bones?
Bob Bakker is one.
What layer of soil was dinosaur bones found in?
Fossils are not found in the soil. They are found in layers of rock after time.
Can people make Dinosaurs from the bones they found?
They couldn't make it come alive, but if they had all the bones of that dinosaur then they would be able to make a structure of what that dinosaur looked like.
How do they know the first dinosaur to die was the Hobosaurus?
The bones were the oldest:)
