IN 1787, SOMEONE in New Jersey—exactly who now seems to be fotten—found anenormous thighboig out of a stream bank at a place called Woodbury Creek. Thebone clearly didn’t belong to any species of creature still alive, certainly not in New Jersey.
From what little is known now, it is thought to have beloo a hadrosaur, a large duck-billed dinosaur. At the time, dinosaurs were unknown.
The bone was sent to Dr. Caspar Wistar, the nation’s leading anatomist, who described it ata meeting of the Ameri Philosophical Society in Philadelphia that autumn. Unfortunately,Wistar failed pletely the bone’s signifid merely made a few cautiousand uninspired remarks to the effect that it was indeed a whopper. He thus missed the ce,half a tury ahead of anyone else, to be the discoverer of dinosaurs. Ihe boed so little ihat it ut in a storeroom aually disappeared altogether.
So the first dinosaur bone ever found was also the first to be lost.
That the bone didn’t attr……（内容加载失败！）
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