Later on in 1825, Gideon Mantell named the dinosaur“Iguanodon” meaning“guana teeth.”.
He also suggested that Iguanodon had a prehensile tongue which could be
used to gather food,
Iguanodon is a dinosaur which lived about 135 million
years ago during the early Cretaceous Period.
Fossils of the Iguanodon have also been discovered in Belgium,
Germany, North Africa, the United States, and some parts of England.
Iguanodon gives its name to the unranked clade Iguanodontia,
a very populous group of ornithopods with many species known from the Middle Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous.
But despite the fact dinosaurs went extinct 65m
years ago we have a better idea of what an Iguanodon looked like than of how the ancestral flower was built.
But despite the fact dinosaurs went extinct 65 million
years ago we have a better idea of what an Iguanodon looked like than of how the ancestral flower was built.
The Pteranodon family continues their World Tour and
meets Iggy Iguanodon, a large, four-legged chap who shows them his unique
way of walking while leading them to some famous white cliffs.
As one of the first scientifically well-known dinosaurs, Iguanodon has occupied a small but notable place in the public's perception of dinosaurs,
its artistic representation changing significantly in response to new interpretations of its remains.