Dinosaur suit like monster. They continued to be used in films such as "" (1985) which used animatronic brontosaurus suits with radio-controlled heads, and in television series like "Dinosaurs" (1991), a sitcom with a family of dinosaurs. The film "Jurassic Park" (1993) used dinosaur suits for some of the creatures, such as velociraptors and pterodactyls. In modern-day movies such as "Jurassic World" (2015), this was instead done using CGI. In children's television, Barney, an anthropomorphic purple dinosaur, was used in the show "Barney & Friends" alongside other dinosaurs, becoming widely known in pop culture. Some sports teams have dinosaur mascots represented by
Dinosaur in traditional medicines, a practice that continues today. In Europe, dinosaur fossils were generally believed to be the remains of giants and other biblical creatures. Scholarly descriptions of what would now be recognized as dinosaur bones first appeared in the late 17th century in England. Part of a bone, now known to have been the femur of a "Megalosaurus", was recovered from a limestone quarry at Cornwell near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, in 1676. The fragment was sent to Robert Plot, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and first curator of the Ashmolean Museum, who published a description in