{"id":888,"date":"2026-01-07T11:11:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/?p=888"},"modified":"2026-01-07T12:07:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:07:53","slug":"ano-nuevo-dentro-de-un-iguanodon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/ano-nuevo-dentro-de-un-iguanodon\/","title":{"rendered":"A\u00f1o Nuevo dentro de un Iguanodon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aunque los f\u00f3siles han sido conocidos por la humanidad desde hace miles de a\u00f1os, su estudio formal no iniciar\u00eda sino hasta alrededor del siglo XVIII. La paleontolog\u00eda de dinosaurios empezar\u00eda con las primeras descripciones de estos animales, en 1824 y 1825 con Megalosaurus e Iguanodon.<\/p>\n

Sus representaciones originales eran poco m\u00e1s que lagartos elefantinos o iguanas s\u00faper desarrolladas. Con materiales tan incompletos y nada vivo que se le pareciera resultaba realmente dif\u00edcil generar una buena reconstrucci\u00f3n por parte de sus descubridores, William Buckland y Gideon Mantell.<\/p>\n

Fue el naturalista ingl\u00e9s Sir Richard Owen quien acu\u00f1ar\u00eda el t\u00e9rmino \u201cDinosauria\u201d en 1842 para darle un lugar dentro de la clasificaci\u00f3n taxon\u00f3mica a las pocas especies conocidas de estos extra\u00f1os y peculiares gigantes extintos, y como todo en la Inglaterra victoriana era sobre presumir tecnolog\u00eda y descubrimientos, se decidi\u00f3 que los dinosaurios (y otros animales extintos) formar\u00edan parte de una exhibici\u00f3n a escala real dentro de la Gran Exposici\u00f3n de los Trabajos de la Industria de todas las Naciones de 1851, un evento internacional muy importante.<\/p>\n

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, famoso escultor ingl\u00e9s, creo unas cuantas esculturas para la exposici\u00f3n, y gustaron tanto que lo comisionaron con la elaboraci\u00f3n de otras 30 para el Crystal Palace Park en 1853.<\/p>\n

A finales de a\u00f1o llevaba sus reproducciones a escala real bastante avanzadas. Estos modelos, hechos con arcilla sobre varillas de hierro y endurecidos con concreto, ten\u00edan que ser huecos para evitar colapsar por su propio peso lo que le dio a Waterhouse una gran idea publicitaria:<\/p>\n

El 31 de diciembre de 1853 organiz\u00f3 la cena de a\u00f1o nuevo dentro del cuerpo de un Iguanodon.<\/p>\n

El tama\u00f1o de la criatura (10 m de longitud) permiti\u00f3 poner dentro una mesa y sillas para este peculiar evento social, una cena de ocho tiempos que cont\u00f3 con la presencia de importantes figuras de la \u00e9lite cient\u00edfica y social de Inglaterra, as\u00ed como algunos periodistas que pudieran pasar la voz.<\/p>\n

S\u00edgueme por: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DinodatosFB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aunque los f\u00f3siles han sido conocidos por la humanidad desde hace miles de a\u00f1os, su estudio formal no iniciar\u00eda sino hasta alrededor del siglo XVIII. La paleontolog\u00eda de dinosaurios empezar\u00eda con las primeras descripciones de estos animales, en 1824 y 1825 con Megalosaurus e Iguanodon. Sus representaciones originales eran poco m\u00e1s que lagartos elefantinos o […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"columnista":[17],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columnas","columnista-dinodatos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"columnista","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elcontemporaneo.mx\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/columnista?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}