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OCR: DINOSAUR FINDS H UMANS STARTED hunting for dinosaur fossils a century and a half ago. Since then, more than 1,000 different species of dinosaurs have been identified all over the world. In 1858, a U.S. paleontologist, Joseph Leidy, discovered the first complete dinosaur skeleton, in New Jersey. It was that of a Hadrosaurus, a duck-billed dinosaur. Antarctica was the last continent to yield dinosaur bones - in 1986. Meanwhile, new finds continue to be made every year. GIVING DINOSAURS A NAME Richard Owen (1804-92), a British scientist, invented the term "dinosaur" in 1842. SEE ALSO