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Terrible lizard : the first dinosaur hunters and the birth of a new science

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  • "The author presents the story of a twelve-year-old who found a seventeen foot long skeleton in 1812, of the Reverend William Buckland who was interested in "undergroundology" in his attempts to prove the accuracy of the Biblical accounts of creation, of Dr. Gideon Mantell who uncovered petrified bones in a Sussex quarry, and of his feud with the anatomist Richard Owen "who claimed the credit for the discovery of the dinosaurs."--Jacket."

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