Ancient Dinosaur Appearance Misinterpretations

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Dinosaurs Rediscovered

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A sea monster with it's head on it's butt? 10 times we were completely wrong about dinosaur-age creatures

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Scientists have been reconstructing the appearance of dinosaurs and other ancient creatures for centuries .

Some interpretations of what they looked like are always subject to change.

Iguanodon became one of the first known dinosaurs in 1842 when English paleontologist Richard Owen coined the clade name " Dinosauria ," which is Greek for "terrible lizard".

Study suggests T. rex could have weighed 33,000 pounds ( 15,000 kilograms ) Researchers are still debating how often it would have swam and the extent to which this dinosaur was specialized for hunting in water.

Pterosaurs were a group of winged reptiles that dominated the skies during the age of dinosaurs .

Early depictions showed them slithering through the water like a lizard or snake.

Cetiosaurus was a giant Jurassic sauropod that stood around 60 feet ( 18 m) long.

When it was discovered in 1841 , it was completely misidentified.

The first interpretation of the fossils was that they belonged to a massive crocodile-like predator that lived in the sea.

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