Certainly fossilized parts of dinosaurs had been found for centuries but people didn't know exactly what they were. They were mistaken for all sorts of animals.
I think it was Othniel Charles Marsh in the mid-to-late 19th century who first systematically collected dinosaur fossils and assembled them so that it became clear what they were and how they were related.
The first dinosaurs appeared on earth about 250 million years ago just after the Permian-Triassic mass extinction. The Triassic dinosaurs weren't too fierce and they were mainly neutrally defensive, which means they don't attack unless provoked.
The first dinosaurs lived in the beginning of the Mesozoic Era (or the Age of Reptiles). Birds were amazingly discovered to be dinosaurs so dinosaurs were also alive in the Cenozoic (that's our time-the Age of Mammals) to today.
The first birds appeared during the Jurassic period, around 150 million years ago. They are believed to have evolved from small theropod dinosaurs.
Mammals actually first came into existence about 220 million years ago, which is about 155 million years before the dinosaurs went extinct, and only about 10 million years after they themselves first evolved. So mammals actually lived alongside the dinosaurs, though played a much smaller role.
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Paleontologists are constantly discovering new dinosaurs. This will probably continue for a very long time to come.
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Dinosaurs evolved first and then some dinosaurs evolved into birds. So all birds are technically dinosaurs.
Humans came after Dinosaurs.
dinosaurs because there were no humans around when the dinosaurs were around.
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When people started to discover the fosils of dinosaurs, they assumed these creatures still existed. The first concept of dragons originated in China hundreds of years ago.
Dinosaurs first appeared in the tertiary stages of the Earth. Tertiary was when the dinosaurs ruled the earth. Then there was jurassic and then creteacious
The first dinosaurs evolved from fishes and were no bigger than these days crocodiles.