About Chris
Christopher M. Cevasco writes fiction inspired by history. Some of his most recent stories have appeared in Black Static and A Field Guide to Surreal Botany, and his tales will feature in the forthcoming Prime Books anthologies Shades of Blue and Gray and Zombies: Shambling Through History. He is seeking representation for his first book, an historical epic that weaves an alternate world from the watershed events of 1066, as well as for a just-completed historical thriller about Lady Godiva.
ZOUNDS!
Your Daily Dose of History
And did those feet in ancient time…
Megalosaurus has the distinction of being the first dinosaur ever mentioned in popular media. It appeared in the opening lines of Charles Dickens’s 1852 novel Bleak House (the photo of Dickens at left dates from the year the novel was published). Megalosaurus bones were first discovered in 1677 in England, and in 1824 it also became the first dinosaur to have a scientific description published once paleontologist William Buckland correctly identified the bones as belonging to a dinosaur. Initially the bones were believed to have come from a Biblical race of giants or from a dragon… Read more…
