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How did humans know about dinosaurs?
Who first discovered the story of dinosaur prout-Garon-Garon? Mrs. Mantell thinks the story of dinosaurs is really romantic, and Mr. Mantell can also explore the ownership of dinosaurs with a rigorous and realistic attitude, which is indeed the first step for human beings to study dinosaurs scientifically and understand them. But in history, humans have long discovered dinosaur fossils, but at that time, due to limited knowledge, they could not explain them correctly. As early as 1000 years ago, during the Jin Dynasty in China, dinosaur fossils were discovered in Wucheng County, Sichuan Province. But people at that time did not know that it was the remains of dinosaurs, but regarded them as the bones left by the legendary dragons. Based on the clues found in a historical novel "Mr. milken's Wife", a researcher named Huster from the University of Reading in England recently announced that he had finally discovered the following facts: 1677, an Englishman named prout-Garonne-Garonne wrote a natural history book about Oxford. In this book, prout Gallon Gallon describes a huge fossil leg bone found in a quarry in the parish of Karovilla. Prout-Garonne-Garonne drew a good illustration of this fossil, and pointed out that this thigh bone is neither cow's, horse's, nor elephant's, but belongs to a giant bigger than them. Although prout-Garonne Province-Garonne Province didn't realize that this fossil was a dinosaur, or even associated it with reptiles, the specimen he described with words and illustrations has been identified by later paleontologists as the thigh bone of a dinosaur called Megalodon, and this fossil was discovered 145 years before Iguanodon was discovered in Mantels. Therefore, Hastert thinks that prout-Garonne-Garonne should be the first discoverer and recorder of dinosaur fossils. The origin of the name "dinosaur" In fact, the history of human discovery of dinosaur fossils must have a long history. Long before Mantel and his wife discovered Iguanodon, Europeans knew that there were many grotesque huge bone fossils buried underground. But at that time, people didn't know their exact ownership, so they were always mistaken for "the remains of giants." As for China, as early as 2,000 years ago, we began to collect large ancient animal fossils unearthed underground for medicine, and called these fossils "keels". Who can be sure that the name "keel" has nothing to do with the discovery of dinosaur fossils?