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The first fossil hunter called dinosaurs “big lizards with attitude.” Paleontology: now with branding.

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The word dinosaur, meaning terrible lizard, was coined by Richard Owen in 1842. There is no record of a first fossil hunter calling them 'big lizards with attitude'.

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