... jaw that contained a number of sharp teeth. After studying the jaw, he decided that it was unlike any other fossil ever found. He gave it the name Megalosarus, meaning great lizard. Around this time an English naturalist, Mary Ann Mantall, found a large tooth partly buried in a rock. She and her husband, Gideon, decided that the tooth looked like one of an ... ...

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... human race. Existence of Dinosaurs: Scientists have now firm belief framed from available evidences that Dinosaurs did exist once on this earth. The term dinosaur (deinos means terrifying; sauros means lizard) was coined by the English anatomist Sir Richard Owen in 1842.(Haines, 97) The term "dinosaurs", or the scientific version "Dinosaurian", is describing a diverse group of species with widely different ... ...

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