William Buckland
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Geologist who first described the Megalosaurus fossils
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentUnknownHistory Daily · Saturday Matinee: I Know Dino · 28:35 · 8 Aug
…William Buckland officially named Megalosaurus on February 20th, 1824, the whole reason we're celebrating 200 years.…
Jonty ClaypoleSecret Life of Books · Bleak House by Charles Dickens - SLoB Book Club returns! (fe... · 37:04 · 9 Jun
…And in 1824, a geologist, a man called William Buckland, who was professor of geology at Oxford, did a dig in Kirkland Cave in Yorkshire.…
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