DinoDigUnited Kingdom
The birthplace of the word "dinosaur"; Iguanodon and Megalosaurus were named here in the 1820s.
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The United Kingdom is the birthplace of dinosaur paleontology. Megalosaurus (1824), Iguanodon (1825), and Hylaeosaurus (1833) were the original three genera that prompted Richard Owen to coin "Dinosauria."
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