I Want To Know When Were Dinosaurs Discovered?

The first ever dinosaur discovery over the world was initially made in US. And the discovery was made by Dr. Caspar Wistar, he actually found a thigh bone in Gloucester County, New Jersey, in the year 1787. In 1800 in Massachusetts, USA, Pliny Moody found 1-foot long trace of footprints at his farm-house that were thought by Harvard and Yale scholars that the footprints belonged were from "Noah's Raven." A number of other dinosaur footprints were discovered in New England stone quarries and that was also in the early 1800's, but initially they were thought to be of no importance and were put away or ignored in the quarrying process.

Other incomplete dinosaur bones and tracks were unearthed at this time in Connecticut Valley, Massachusetts. The first ever almost-completed dinosaur skeleton was discovered by William Parker Foulke. Foulke had heard about the news of a discovery made by workmen in Cretaceous marl which was actually of a crumbly type of soil pit on the John E. Hopkins farm in Haddonfield, New Jersey and this incident happened in the beginning of 1838. Foulke heard of the discovery and realized it's real worth twenty years later in 1858. Unfortunately, most of the discoveries were already taken away by working men.

Dinosaurs were present on this earth for more than 200 million years, but no one had ever heard of them until 1841 simply because there was no name or definition of them as a group of fossils. This was 165 years after the first published illustration of a dinosaur bone and many years after the first dinosaur was named and described, Dinosauria, comes from deinos, the Greek for terrible and sauros, Greek for lizard. Most fossils are now named in this way part Greek part Latin.The term Dinosaur was first coined by Sir Richard Owen.

It was Sir Richard Owen who found some of the first dinosaur fossils. They were teeth.
They were pretty big too. He studied many types of animals and was pretty sure that these teeth did not belong to any living animal today. He did however think it was similar to a lizards tooth. So he named the dinosaurs. This discovery caused many others to be curious and they to began looking for dinosaurs.

The term "dinosaur" was given in 1842 by Sir Richard Owen and derives from Greek word (deinos) "terrible, powerful, wondrous" (sauros) = "lizard". = Terrible, powerful, wondrous lizard.

Other fossils may have been found earlier that 1842, but the name DINOSAUR was not given until 1842.

Did you know that dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible. They aren't called dinosaurs but the behemoth and the leviathan. Its in the book of Job chapters 40 verse 15 - 24 and chapter 41 verses 1 - 10. Some version say they are an elephant or an alligator but if you remember the elephant's tail it is very small not like the tail of a cedar that the King James Bible says it is like. Then in verse 19 of chapter 41 it says the leviathan spits fire from its mouth, I know that alligators can't do that. Just thought you would like to know.