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Thinking back, what is the earliest you know of that dinosaur bones were discovered? I imagine that paleontology really got going in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, but do we have a record of earlier bone discovery? For example, did people in the ancient world know about dinosaur bones?
Nichoria Bone – Ancient Greekshttp://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/fossil-ancient-greeks-mammal-110331.htmBut I think the first scientific study of them were by the British in the late 1600's.
It looks like that was the bone of a wooly rhinoceros, and it seems as if there were other fossils in existence in the ancient world. So that kind of answers my question, but I'm still curious if there were any actual dinosaur fossils around at the time. Things like wooly rhinos and wooly mammoths still roamed the earth as recently as 10,000 B.C. (perhaps even more recent than that), but dinosaurs died off millions of years ago (don't know the exact number).
