... lacked humility to make things too realistic. When animals were pictured on masks they had a meaning. Speed was characterized by the antelope, and strength was characterized by the crocodile. The lizard meant life, the tortoise old age; the snake meant swift movement or death. Birds were thought of as intermediaries between the earth and heavens. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... 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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• Grade Level: High School