Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of DinosaursGideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs is a scholarly yet accessible biography the first in a generation of a pioneering dinosaur hunter and scholar. Gideon Mantell discovered the Iguanodon (a famous tale set right in this book) and several other dinosaur species, spent over twenty five years restoring Iguanodon fossils, and helped establish the idea of an Age of Reptiles that ended with their extinction at the conclusion of the Mesozoic Era.