Sir Richard Owen was a scientist who in 1842 coined the word dinosaur to name a group of large extinct reptiles, based on the fossils of Megalosaurus, Iguanodon, and Hylaeosaurus.
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Sir Richard Owen was a scientist who in 1842 coined the word dinosaur to name a group of large extinct reptiles, based on the fossils of Megalosaurus, Iguanodon, and Hylaeosaurus.