megalosaurus

Everyday

1. Megalosaurus was a large meat-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now England about 166 million years ago. tree →
2. It was the first dinosaur ever given a scientific name, in 1824. tree →

In the lessons

Met in science and history lessons about fossils and the first dinosaur discoveries in Oxford.

Examples

• Megalosaurus walked on two legs. tree →
• Megalosaurus was the first dinosaur to be named. tree →
• Its bones were found near Oxford. tree →
• Megalosaurus means «great lizard». tree →
• Charles Dickens mentioned a Megalosaurus in one of his books. tree →
• Megalosaurus had sharp, curved teeth. tree →

Note

Name of a kind of dinosaur, often written with a capital M. Plural is rare: megalosauruses. Old pictures showed it on four legs; we now know it walked on two.