Buckland's Big Lizard
Megalosaurus , once a staple i n every dinosaur book or publication you could find, has been gradually overshadowed by other, better known predatory dinosaurs, to the point that it is very rarely mentioned nowadays in dinosaur books and related media. There may be many reasons for that, but the main one is probably that, almost 200 years after it was initially described, it is still a very poorly known dinosaur due to the scarce remains available. Soon after its discovery in England in the early 19 th century, the genus became a sort of “wastebasket taxon” into which pretty much any other theropod dinosaur from anywhere in the world was thrown. Because of this, at one point more than 40 different species of theropod dinosaurs were assigned to the genus Megalosaurus , with some notable ones later reclassified as the now much better known Allosaurus , Ceratosaurus , Carcharodontosaurus , Torvosaurus , Eustreptospondylus , Dryptosaurus and Dil o phosaurus , among many others. O...