Finding the World's First Dinosaur Skeleton
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Description: Recounts the story of William Parker Foulke discovering the first nearly-complete skeleton of a dinosaur, the "Bone Wars" that followed, and the history of the site in Haddonfield, New Jersey.
Hadrosaurus.com -- Finding the World's First Dinosaur Skeleton A bronze and stone marker (left) In Haddonfield, N.J. commemorates the site where the skeleton of Hadrosaurus n the summer of 1858, Victorian gentleman and fossil hobbyist William Parker Foulke was vacationing in Haddonfield, New Jersey, when he heard that twenty years previous, workers had found gigantic bones in a local marl pit. Foulke spent the the late summer and fall directing a crew of hired diggers shin deep in gray slime. Eventually he found the bones (above, right) of an animal larger than an elephant with structural features of both a lizard and a bird.
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| Page title: | Hadrosaurus.com -- Finding the World's First Dinosaur Skeleton |
| Keywords: | dinosaur, dinosaurs, hadrosaurus foulkii, hadrosaurs, hadrosaurids, fossil, skeleton, bones, paleontology, excavation, excavate, excavating, dig, digs, digging, marl, Philadelphia, Academy, Natural, Science, Sciences, Natural History, marl, Victorian, Haddonfield, NJ, N.J, New Jersey, Camden County, Joseph Leidy |
| Description: | A photo and text history of the discovery of the world's first full dinosaur skeleton in Haddonfield, N.J., 1858. |
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