Dinosaurs: Fact or Fiction?
By Alice Henry
@IreneVincent (15960)
United States
February 7, 2017 12:02am CST
I’m hoping to write a few things that I’ve found researching the history of “dinosaurs.” The very word “dinosaur” was coined by an English paleontologist named Richard Owen in 1842.
So, no one had ever heard of the word “dinosaur” before that date in time.
After that there was a frenzy among scientists to find more bones and this eventually resulted in the BONE WAR or the “Great Dinosaur Rush.”
It was said that these two men supposedly found 142 new species of dinosaurs, though today only 32 are recognized by the scientific world. And in addition to that, most of these "species" are based on just a few bone fragments.
You can read about all this at:
Tell me what you believe about dinosaurs.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For the book by Tom Rea, see Bone Wars (book). For the series of armed conflicts between the Netherlands East Indies and the Sultanate of Bone, see First Bone War and Second Bone War. "Dinos
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
8 Feb 17
I will have to see if I can locate Robert Bakker's book, '"Dinosaur Heresies." I'm sure I would enjoy reading it.
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
8 Feb 17
The origin of words is a fascinating course of study.
@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
7 Feb 17
And the cliche "You're an old dinosaur" also came to being.
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
8 Feb 17
I think that there has to be a lot of misinformation and controversy over the existence of dinosaurs. How would a person really know what happened "millions of years ago" Although bone fragments have been found and radiation tests have been done, there is still a lot of guesswork and imagination involved, in my humble opinion.
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