Love in the Time of Dinosaurs
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In 1824, studying a set of large fossil bones discovered in a quarry near Oxford two centuries earlier, the English theologian, geologist, and paleontologist William Buckland kept looking at the fragment of the lower jaw. Something didn't add up. As he examined it more closely, he realized these were not the remains of an elephant, as previously thought, but of an enormous carnivorous reptile with no analogue in the fossil record or in the living world. He christened it Megalosaurus — the first named dinosaur — and set out to compose a complete account of the ancient beast. Because nobody… read article
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