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History of research on and discoveries of dinosaurs |
- about AD 300 – a Chinese chronicler Chang Qu recorded the findings of ˊdragon bones".
- 1677 – Robert Plot described ˊan unknown and mysterious thighboneˊ.
- 1822 - Dean William Buckland ascribed a found jaw to ˊa great lizardˊ. The first dinosaur was called by him megalosaur.
- 1825 - Gideon Mantell and his wife, Mary, discovered the fossilized teeth of the animal, called an iguanodon.
- 1849 - Richard Owen separated the group of Dinosauria, which in Greek means ˊterrible lizardsˊ.
- 1853 - an exhibition of dinosaurs in Crystal Palace in London.
- 1856 - the first discovery of dinosaur bones in the US.
- 1858 - in Provence, Jean Jacques Pouech discovered the egg shells, belonging to the Cretaceous sauropods.
- 1867 - Thomas H. Huxley was the first scientist to suggest that birds are the lineal descendants of dinosaurs.
- 1877-95 - ˊWar for bonesˊ – a fierce competition between Othniel C. Marsh and Edward D. Cope led to discovering hundreds of dinosaur specimen on the area of US West.
- 1878 - in Bernissart (Belgium), the skeletons of more than 40 specimens of the iguanodon are discovered.
- 1959 - Władysław Karaszewski discovered the traces of dinosaurs in Góry Świętokrzyskie.
- 1963-71 – the Golden Age of Polish paleonthology. Polish-Mongolian Paleonthological Expeditions to the Gobi Desert, with Zofia Kielan-Jaworska in charge, discover the numerous skeletons of dinosaurs from the late Cretaceous and the eggs of dinosaurs as well.
- 1970s – John Ostrom of Yale University published revolutionary treatises, presenting dinosaurs as dynamic and clever animals. His description of the deinonychus becamed the pivotal point in the history of the paleonthology of the vertebartes.
- Since 1970s – evidence of the fact that birds really evolved from dinosaurs, has been accumulating. Research on the various specimens of dinosaurs showed that these were active animals of complex structure.
- 1974-75 – Robert Baker restored the superorder Dinosauria as a formal taxonomic unit and announced ˊthe Renaissance of dinosaursˊ.
- 1991 – the discovery of eoraptor (one of the earliest dinosaurs), one of the many major discoveries in Argentina at the end of the 20th century.
- 1996 – the new discoveries of dinosaurs on Madagascar and in China (including the fossils of early-Cretaceous feathered dinosaurs and mesozoic early birds in the Liaoning province).
- 2000 - the commencement of excavations in Krasiejów in the Opole province. Among numerous late-triassic fossils, there are remains of aˊpradinosaurˊ, described in 2003 by Jerzy Dzik as the Silesaurus opolensis.
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