CRAZY Dinosaur Discoveries

The dinosaur craze started when people began finding their bones in the ground and realized what they belonged to in the early 1800’s. People haven’t stopped being fascinated with the extinct creatures in the years since and who can blame them when those bones belong to animals bigger than mammoths that roamed both land and sea in a time long ago. Here’s some crazy dinosaur discoveries that have fascinated humans for the last two centuries.

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7. Leonardo

Paleontologists were overjoyed when, in 2002 they found the remarkably well preserved fossilized skeleton of a 77 million year old duck billed dinosaur. Dubbed Leonardo the creature was 22 feet long and weighed nearly 2 tons. He was very young when he died, only three to four years old. The skeleton was covered in skin, scales, muscles and foot pads. It even still had the creatures last meal in it's stomach. Experts considered it a mummy because of it's preserved soft tissue, at the time this made it only the fourth dinosaur fossil mummy ever.

6. The Montana Dueling Dinosaurs

A Montana Rancher now known as the Dinosaur Cowboy discovered this incredibly rare fossil in the state’s Hell Creek Formation. Like the aforementioned Fighting Dinosaurs this fossil is made of the bones of two specimens that appeared to have died fighting each other. The remains belong to a pony sized carnivore called a Tyrannosaurid and a slightly larger herbivore called a Ceratopsian. The remarkable find is now preserved in plaster and sitting in a vault.

5. Nodosaur

Though it hasn’t been alive for 110 million years, this nodosaur looks like it may suddenly start moving around at any moment. Millions of years after it died, and was likely carried out to sea before being buried, in tact in sediment, it was unearthed in Alberta’s tar sands in 2011. Most agree that the 18 foot long specimen is the best preserved armoured dinosaur in the world. A Canadian museum unveiled the amazing site in May so that any dinosaur lover out there could go see the lifelike nodosaur for themselves.

4. Amazing Amber Tail

Paleontologists were thrilled when the tail of a small, feathered dinosaur was found perfectly preserved in amber in north eastern Myanmar late last year. Examiners were amazed at the details they could discern, like the bones, flesh, skin and feathers of the appendage just by looking through the amber. The discovery was made in a fairly unlikely place, an amber market. The seller had polished the 99 million year old amber for jewellery, thinking the tail was nothing more than plant material.

3. Hadrosaurus

A man was digging a pit off the Cooper River in New Jersey in 1838 when he unexpectedly stumbled upon the first skeleton of a Hadrosaurus ever found. As it turns out, that would be the only fossil of the dinosaur ever recovered. The dinosaurs remains were nearly complete. A team assembled the skeleton in 1868 and put it on display at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. People were in awe of the Hadrosaurus as they were seeing what was the first mounted dinosaur skeleton in the world.

2. Iguanodon

The year after the Megalosaurus was officially recognized as the first formally named dinosaur, the Iguanodon became the second. Gideon Mantell, this guy, discovered some of the animals teeth sometime in the early 1820’s. A nearly complete skeleton was found in 1834 that sits in the Natural History Museum in London to this day. Their most unique and crazy characteristic is their large thumb spikes, which were likely used for defense against predators. The most substantiated species lived in Europe approximately 125 million years ago. Iguanodon were giant plant eaters that measured around 3 tons on average and stretched out as long as 43 feet.

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1. Megalosaurus

Though a lower part of it's femur was discovered in the 17th century and it would become the first non avian dinosaur to be validly named in 1824, there’s still a lot about the Megalosaurus that’s unknown. People didn’t know what that femur was for years. At first experts theorized that it was the thighbone of a Roman war elephant. Pieces have been found but never a complete skeleton, making much about it's build unclear. It was about 23 feet long and weighed a little over a ton. They lived during the Jurassic Period around 166 million years ago. They were bipedal with short, stocky forelimbs and a rather large head.

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