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Megalosaurus (meaning "Great Lizard) is a genus of large meat-eating theropod dinosaurs of the Middle Jurassic period (Bathonian stage, 166 million years ago) of Southern England.

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Megalosaurus was one of the first dinosaurs ever to be named. The dinosaur was first thought to be a giant lizard-like creature similar to that to Iguanodon, nowadays the dinosaur's image had been updated to a bipedal and balanced carnivorous creature.

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