when and where was the first dinosaur fossil discovered?

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talking T rex or Raptor

first two answers are not likely toget best answer are they

Answer 1

http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4772

Answer 2

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).

Answer 3

Dinosaur fossils themselves have been found by man since the dawn of time, however they were not recognized as the fossilized bones of animals that lived millions of years. They were, however, probably instrumental in the formation of the legends of dragons that are found almost universally in every culture. Chinese folk medicine shops still sell many fossil bones today as 'dragon bones' (in fact, more than a few new fossil species have been discovered while perusing the fare at a Chinese apothecary).

The term 'dinosaur' was first coined by Sir Richard Owen in 1841, and at that time paleontology as a science was really beginning to be understood, mostly through the work of Georges Cuvier who was the first to establish that these were not merely the remains of dead organisms, but of extinct species.

In the late 19th century, fossil hunting became big news as huge, spectacular finds in the American west led to the infamous 'fossil wars' as hunters like Cope and Marsh battled it out to get the best finds, publish the most new names, get the best museum reconstructions, and the biggest name. They even took to sabotaging each other's dig sites.

The first Tyrannosaurus rex was recovered and described from the Hell Creek formation in Montana in 1902 by Barnum Brown and R.S. Lull. Orginally owned by the American Museum of Natural History, it now resides in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and bears the designation CMNH 9380.

The first Velociraptor specimen was recovered from Mongolia in 1922 by the famous expedition led by Roy Chapman Andrews. It was named in 1924 by American Museum of Natural History president Henry Fairfield Osborn. All known Velociraptors have come from Mongolia or China.

There are other types of dinosaurs in the group generally called 'raptors' - the deinonychosaurs and dromaeosaurids, which are found throughout North America and elsewhere.

In 1964 John Ostrom investigated a specimen uncovered in 1931 by Barnum Brown (the same one who found T. rex) from the Cloverly formation in Montana. Brown had called the specimen Daptosaurus in his notes, but never published it. Ostrum noted the curved toe-claw and also noted a number of striking similarities in certain features in the wrist bones with highly derived features found in birds. He named it Deinonychus antirrhopus, and the type specimen AMNH 3015 is housed at the Peabody Museum. Deinonychus was more like the creatures called 'Velociraptor' in the Jurassic Park movies. The actual Velociraptor was about the size of a large dog, not man-sized as Deinonychus was.

Answer 4

Over 2000 years ago in Wucheng, Sichuan in China, referred to as 'dragon bones'.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/dinofossils/First.shtml

The first nearly complete dinosaur fossil was found in 1858 in Haddonfield, New Jersey
http://www.levins.com/dinosaur.shtml

The earliest discovery of dinosaur bones in South Africa, 1845
http://www.ru.ac.za/affiliates/am/paranth.html

But prior to that the following were also found:
1809 - A lower shin- bone of a large unknown animal was collected at Cuckfield
1818 - Bones of Megalosaurus were discovered at Stonefield, Oxfordshire in England
1822 - Teeth of an unknown animal near Lewes, Sussex

And much earlier in 1676 a huge thigh bone was found in England


Tyrannosaurus Rex (T Rex) was founded in 1960, London!
He he he he :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Rex_(band)
Sorry, couldn't resist! :)

Answer 5

They've been finding them forever but thought they were dragon bones. In the 1850s science began looking at them and started classifying them.

Answer 6

They have been turning up all through the ages which is why we have a mythology full of dragons and demons.

Answer 7

i think it was lulworth cove in dorset england in the 18th century

Answer 8

It weas found on EARTH
In the ground/soil

Answer 9

Don't know - ask Ross from Friends, bet he knows.