How were Dinosaur fossils only discovered in the 1800’s? Did no one prior to this time period come across them?

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How were Dinosaur fossils only discovered in the 1800’s? Did no one prior to this time period come across them?

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They did but no one really understood what they were, Its where you get stories of cyclops and dragons from. If I recall correctly there was a wooly mammoth skull was found in europe and they thought they had found the skull of a cyclops.