In 1861, just 2 years after the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection, stoneworkers exhumed a curious fossil from a limestone quarry in Bavaria. The fossil had many of the skeletal characteristics of dinosaurs, including a full set of teeth, a flat breastbone, and a long, bony tail.
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