Scattered across several islands in the middle of a lake stood three dozen life-size sculptures of prehistoric animals, including several dinosaurs up to 30 feet long—the world’s first attempt ...
In 1824, the species became the first dinosaur to be scientifically described and named. Victorian scientists initially ...
An artist's impression of how Victorian palaeontologists thought ... the 200th anniversary of the first formal naming of a dinosaur. Oxford University's first reader in geology, William Buckland ...