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The first Pterodactylus fossil discovered was found in the 1700's, and though I don't know who found the fossil, it was first described by Cosimo Alessandro Collini. Plesiosaur vertebrae were discovered as early as the 1600's, but they were believed to belong to fish. In 1719, William Stukely was told by Robert Darwin, the great-grandfather of Charles Darwin, about a partial plesiosaur skeleton preserved in a slab of rock. Stukely then described this plesiosaur.

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