"The combination of such characters, some, as the……" — Richard Owen
"The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each other, and all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it is presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria."
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Richard Owen
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16 Quotes by Richard Owen
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No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.
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