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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In North America, the local people said they’d stumbled across the burial ground of “big people ” and left them the heck alone out of respect. I wonder what sense they would have made of a T. rex skull…