Dinosaur Discovery

Dinosaur discovery timeline (gleened from Wikipedia article "Dinosaur"):

• previous to 1679, big bones were being found but explained in mythic ways: dragon bones in china, giants killed by the flood in europe, etc.
• 1676 - Robert Plot, England. Published first identification of one of these bones belonging to an unknown animal... which he attributed to a Biblical giant.
• 1699 - Edwrad Lhuyd, identified 'sauropod tooth' as belonging to an unknown large animal. England.
• 1815-1824 - Rev. William Buckland, first to describe in science journal a full-on 'dinosaur'. England. Called it Megalosaurus. Plot's 1676 femur came from one of these.
• 1822 - Mary Ann Mantell finds first Iguanodon bones; but it's her husband - Gideon - who names and publishes the find in 1825.
• 1834 - Nearly complete skeleton found. England.
• 1842 - Richard Owen first to call these new animals "dinosaurs". England.
• 1858 - First American dinosaur discovered. Hadrosaurus, second most complete skeleton found, bipedal. Said to have started the American mania for dinosaurs.
• 1867-1897 - The "Bone Wars" between Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh. America. Discovered 142 new species between them... but used dynomite, and so may have destroyed an unknown number of other fossils.