The Megalosaurus paper cemented Buckland’s professional reputation in the new field of geology, but its significance as the first scientific description of a dinosaur was only apparent in ...

British scientist William Buckland coined the name in 1824. Tuesday marks the 200th anniversary of the first dinosaur ever named, which changed the field of paleontology: The Megalosaurus.

Even after Buckland’s discovery, the term dinosaur wasn’t coined until 1842, when the English biologist and paleontologist Sir Richard Owen named a group of existing fossils — including the ...

They are likely to belong to relatives of the carnivorous Megalosaurus (the first dinosaur ever named) and herbivorous Cetiosaurus, respectively. Four similar but distinct types of theropod ...

Think T-Rex and Velociraptor. Megalosaurus also carries the honor of being the first dinosaur to be scientifically named and described in 1824. "Scientists have known about and been studying ...

A fifth set belonged to the Megalosaurus, a ferocious 9-meter predator that left a distinctive triple-claw print and was the first dinosaur to be scientifically named two centuries ago.

The prints were made by both long-necked sauropods and a predator, megalosaurus ... price that had previously been set by the king of the dinosaur world, the Tyrannosaurus rex.