The skeleton was restored by a team of Italian ... to be described scientifically as a dinosaur in 1825 – after the megalosaurus.

No complete skeleton of Megalosaurus has been found. But Megalosaurus did make its impact on popular culture. Charles Dickens, who was friends with Owen, imagined meeting a Megalosaurus on the ...

An artist's impression of how Victorian palaeontologists thought the Megalosaurus looked (right) and how modern scientists understand it to have looked (left) Scientists are celebrating the 200th ...