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title in this award-winning picture word book series. Meet mighty Tyrannosaurus, Giganotosaurus, Triceratops, and more! More than 40 amazing dinosaurs are clearly labelled, with helpful pronunciation ...

English is the world’s dominant scientific language, yet it has no word for the distinctive smell of cockroaches. What happens though, if you have no words for basic scientific terms? Just what is a ...

A Dec. 26, 2023, Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of Sir Richard Owen, an accomplished 19th-century anatomist credited with coining the term "dinosaur." "Sir Richard Owen, who ...

Life was simple before the Jurassic Park movies came out because back then, parents and kids were on the same wavelength. Now school-going kids know more about extinct mammals than their parents or ...

Dinosaurs are living again in San Francisco -- munching their prey, leaving their footprints on the ground, frightening the neighbors and even flying like their descendants, the birds. T. rex is there ...

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The term "dinosaur," coined by Sir Richard Owen in 1841, originates from Greek words meaning "fearfully great lizard." Initially intended to capture the awe-inspiring size of these prehistoric ...