The first scientific name ever given to a dinosaur fossil?
Scrotum humanum  Dinosaur names often have a majestic ring to
them: King of the Tyrant Lizards, Swift Seizer, Colossal Iguana.
The very first scientific dinosaur name was assigned to a one-
ton carnivore that likely ran about on two legs like
Tyrannosaurus Rex. And what was the first bone of this great
beast named after? Balls.  The first scientific name ever given
to a dinosaur fossil? Scrotum humanumS  Let's be fair to Richard
Brookes, the physician who coined the name Scrotum humanum in
1763. He had no idea he was describing a dinosaur; in fact, Sir
Richard Owen wouldn't coin the word "dinosauria" until the 19th
century. A fossilized bone fragment of this particular dino was
discovered in a limestone quarry in Oxfordshire, England in
1676. Richard Plot, Professor of Chemistry at the University of
Oxford, realized that the bone, which he correctly identified as
part of a femur, was too large to belong to any known animal.
Plot, describing the bone in