Paleontologists

• Birth of William Buckland
  William Buckland
  The Very Rev. Dr William Buckland DD FRS was an English geologist, palaeontologist and Dean of Westminster, who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur, which he named Megalosaurus...
  
  , the polymath
  Polymath
  A polymath is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas. In less formal terms, a polymath may simply be someone who is very knowledgeable...
  
   who was the first person to scientifically describe a dinosaur
  Megalosaurus
  Megalosaurus is a genus of large meat-eating theropod dinosaurs of the Middle Jurassic period of Europe...
  
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