THIS MEGALOSAURUS JAW FRAGMENT WAS THE FIRST DINOSAUR FOSSIL EVER DESCRIBED BY SCIENCE.
Rembrandt Peale was mistaken about his carnivorous mastodon with the upside down tusks, but he was no fool. By 1803 when he was writing about the mastodon and touring England with the skeleton, Cuvier had already published powerful evidence that extinction was a real part of nature. Rembrandt was impressed by Cuvier’s description of “no less than twenty-three different species of animals…whose existence in former ages is attested by their fossil remains,” including the Siberian mammoth, the American mastodon, giant ground sloths, huge deer, and so on. None of those fossil species were known to still be alive.
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