Dinosaurs get a Name
Over time, people were finding more mysterious fossiled tracks and bones. Most scientists didn't believe in dragons and there were so many tracks and bones it was becoming obvious that there was a whole group of very large animals that once roamed the Earth.
Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) was a British scientist who noticed that the fossilized bones belong to a group of animals that were quite a bit different than the animals that are alive today. He thought these animals were related to reptiles, and in 1845 came up with the name Dinosaur (from the Greek "deinos" meaning terrible and "sauros" meaning lizard).
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