Sir Richard Owen was the leading comparative anatomist and palaeontologist of his time. A controversial figure, he is perhaps best known for coining the word dinosaur. The Owen collection dates ...
Iguanodon became one of the first known dinosaurs in 1842 when English paleontologist Richard Owen coined the clade name "Dinosauria," which is Greek for "terrible lizard," according to the book ...
In 1857, a British paleontologist, Richard Owen, discovered 13 fossils that led him to publish his findings of a new species of viper, which he claimed to be the largest ever! However, Owen's ...