As far back as ancient China people have been finding dinosaur bones and fossils. Many different types of dinosaur fossils were also found by the Romans and the Greeks. Of course, they didn’t know at the time that they were finding dinosaurs. No, they thought they were finding various kinds of monsters. Creatures they then built myths around. Instead of dinosaur bones they were seen as the bones of centaurs, giants, dragons and other fantastical creatures.
Another fact about fossils is that they are millions of years older. In fact, there are some that are really, really old. What is the oldest fossil ever found? That would be a piece of blue-green algae that lived over 3 billion years ago! Now that’s an old fossil. The largest fossil ever found was a petrified tree found in Thailand. This tree was over 216 feet long. Scientists believe that when it was living it had to have been at least 300 feet tall. That’s about the height of a three-story building.
