In 1824, Megalosaurus Bucklandii was the first dinosaur to be described by science. It was then revealed that the ...

Though hardly a household name like Velociraptor or Tyrannosaurus rex, Megalosaurus holds a key place in the history of paleontology. That’s not because it’s an exceptional dinosaur but as it was the ...

In an extraordinary paleontological finding, researchers have uncovered a series of massive dinosaur trackways dating back to the Middle Jurassic Period, approximately 166 million years ago.

On 20 February 1824, during a meeting of the Geological Society of London, palaeontologist William Buckland formally introduced Megalosaurus. Megalosaurus was the first dinosaur to be described by ...