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1912 — Charles Dawson announces discovery of "Piltdown Man" in England, a hoax that would confuse paleoanthropology until the fossils were revealed as forgeries in 1953. [15] 1912-15 — Spinosaurus is found in North Africa and is speculated to be the largest terrestrial predator that ever lived.
Download QR code; Print/export ... Timeline of major dinosaur groups per Holtz (2007). Paleobiology. ... After non-avian dinosaurs were discovered, paleontologists ...
In the 135 years between Buckland's first discovery and 1969 a total of 170 dinosaur genera were described. In the 25 years after 1969 that number increased to 315. Much of this increase was due to the examination of new rock exposures, particularly in previously little-explored areas in South America and Africa. [ 82 ]
Skeletal mount of the Tyrannosaurus holotype.. This timeline of tyrannosaur research is a chronological listing of events in the history of paleontology focused on the tyrannosaurs, a group of predatory theropod dinosaurs that began as small, long-armed bird-like creatures with elaborate cranial ornamentation but achieved apex predator status during the Late Cretaceous as their arms shrank and ...
2024 marks 200 years since the first dinosaur, Megalosaurus, was formally identified. Here’s what we’ve learned about the prehistoric creatures over the past two centuries.
This timeline of stegosaur research is a chronological listing of events in the history of paleontology focused on the stegosaurs, the iconic plate-backed, spike-tailed herbivorous eurypod dinosaurs that predominated during the Jurassic period.
Dinosaur fossils have been discovered in Hong Kong for the first time, ... The fossils, estimated to date back 90 million years, were part of a new dinosaur species previously unknown in East Asia.
Gideon Mantell discovered some fossil bones in the Wealden beds (Wessex Formation) of Sussex, England that he believed were the remains of ancient birds. [24] Mantell recognized that his "bird" bones were actually pterosaur fossils and reported his findings to the scientific literature. These were the first Cretaceous pterosaur fossils ever ...