In the year 1676, in England, the remains of Megalosaurus were found by the professor from Oxford University. What’s interesting is that he couldn’t accept the fact that something this big ever lived on earth and he declared it as a skeleton of a human giant. Wait? What? Yeah, you read it right. Don’t forget it was the 17th century when they found this and it was hard for people to believe in many things they didn’t understand.
It took 150 years, and in the year 1824, William Buckland came to the rescue who gave the proper explanation and in 1844 Megalosaurus was given the tag of a dinosaur by the very famous paleontologist of that time Richard Owen.