How Our Understanding of Iguanodon Has Changed Over the Last 200 Years

From spike-nosed lummox to stiff-tailed herbivore, Iguanodon has undergone many reconstructions. Explore its evolving depiction over the last 200 years.

By Gemma Tarlach
Apr 20, 2017 5:00 PMSep 19, 2024 7:52 PM
 Iguanodon 1859 - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Iguanodon, 1859. (Credit: Biodiversity Heritage Library/Illustrated History of the Natural Kingdom/S.G. Goodrich/Derby & Jackson, New York/1859)

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Few dinosaurs have had as many extreme makeovers as Iguanodon. Over nearly two centuries, the herbivore has been imagined as a spike-nosed lummox, inappropriate kangaroo and now, at last, a stiff-tailed, mostly quadrupedal animal.

1825: The Discovery of Iguanodon’s Fossils

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