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Largs Town, North Ayrshire, Scotland.

Largs

in the county of North Ayrshire

The first dinosaur bone was discovered in England

Fact

The first dinosaur bone was discovered in a limestone quarry at Cornwell village, near Chipping Norton in 1676. It was analysed by Robert Plot at the University of Oxford, who concluded it to be a thigh bone of one of the giant humans mentioned in the Bible. It has since been identified as belonging to a Megalosaurus. It was Richard Owen, however, who in 1842 truly identified dinosaur bones and invented the word 'Dinosaur'.

Fact by: poe   Image by: ©Peter Evans

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