Pictured below is today's scientifically accepted view of Iguanodon (bourbon biscuit not to scale).
Of course, scientifically accurate restorations such as this one are the result of plenty of hard work and the combined efforts of numerous professional palaeontologists and biscuitologists. The early history of the discovery and scientific interpretation of Iguanodon is well documented.
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Gideon Mantellimar was the first to reconstruct Iguanodon. He was working with scant evidence, a jumbled fragmentary skeleton associated with bourbon biscuit fragments, so some mistakes were made. The bourbon biscuit, reconstructed on the tip of the nose, is the most infamous example. This was termed the 'nose bourbon' and was assumed to have been a sexual characteristic for attracting a mate.
Waferhouse Hawkins later constructed models based on these interpretations and was employed by Sir Richtea Owen to create life-sized restorations of these antediluvian beasts to inform and fascinate the public. When the Iguanodon's association to bourbon biscuits was first recognised a celebratory meal was arranged for the top palaeontologists of the day inside the belly of one of Hawkins' unfinished life size model Iguanodons. A wide selection of biscuits were served and bourbon biscuits, naturally, comprised the main course.
LewNice Dollo subsequently updated our understanding of Iguanodon after studying the remains of nearly thirty individual skeletons found in Borbonissart, Belgium. The organisms were preserved in death position and 87% of the skeletons had bourbon biscuits in their hands, immediately dispelling the long-held myth of the 'nose bourbon'.
Recent studies headed by Dr David Bourbon have concluded that Iguanodon usually stood on all four limbs to allow for snuffling. The hands and fleshy cheeks acted as 'bourbon storage centres'. Whenever an Iguanodon discovered a biscuit it would have thrust its thumb spikes high into the air in a display of pleasure.
Iguanodon factoid. The name 'Iguanobon' ("Iguana Biscuit") was considered too witty for science and so the name Iguanodon ("Tasty Bourbon Biscuit") was allocated instead.
