New Jersey’s Dinosaur: The Hadrosaurus foulkii

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Sharon McMahon

History, Education

4.9 • 15.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In this episode, Sharon shares the fascinating story behind New Jersey’s Hadrosaurus foulkii, the first full dinosaur skeleton to be discovered anywhere in the world. The skeleton was unearthed in 1858 when naturalist William Parker Foulke was vacationing in Haddonfield, New Jersey. At the time, very few people had heard the term “dinosaur” but Foulke and his comrade, paleontologist Joseph Leidy, spent the next few years uncovering, researching, and sharing the two-story tall “Bulky Lizard” with museum crowds of visitors who were in awe of the prehistoric creature. And here we are, still fascinated with dinosaurs today!

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome, so happy you are joining me today and I have a really fun story for you from the fantastic state of New Jersey.
0:12.0	You can probably guess if you're keeping track what comes next alphabetically.
0:16.0	But you know I love science and you know I love history, and this story marries both of those things,
0:21.9	so I'm really into it it and let's dive in.
0:25.0	I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says So Podcast.
0:31.0	One of the things that consistently cracks me up,
0:35.0	and I mean that literally.
0:37.0	I sometimes will think about this and chuckle,
0:39.0	is that the people who wrote the Constitution,
0:42.0	the people who formed a government out of nothing, who risked everything, to travel
0:51.1	across the Atlantic Ocean, make a country where they had freedom of religion.
0:57.0	Those people had no idea that dinosaurs existed.
1:04.0	That just cracks me up.
1:08.0	Cracks me up that they had no idea that dinosaurs existed.
1:11.0	Like that was a thing that had yet to be discovered. We really did not know as like a human race that dinosaurs existed until the mid 1800s.
1:23.0	All of that time went on by until the mid 1800s
1:29.0	when people started digging,
1:32.0	they started digging stuff up and they're like what in the
1:35.4	Sam hill is this now? I'm certain that throughout the thousands of years of recorded human history people had dug up
1:45.0	dinosaur bones before but they had never been able to identify what they were.
1:50.0	They were just like, dang, that is a large bone.
1:52.5	But let's dive into this story about the very first dinosaur
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