Send us Fan Mail Did you know the man who named the very first dinosaur also tried to eat every animal in the world? Welcome to the utterly chaotic life of William Buckland—the 19th-century pioneering geologist, father of paleontology, discoverer of the Megalosaurus, and zoophagy enthusiast. Long before Jurassic Park, Buckland was rewriting Earth's history. He discovered and named the first scientifically described dinosaur and pioneered the study of fossilized feces (coprolites). But Will...
