ace Park, tands a strange and forgotten sig life-sized models of dinosaurs. Not manypeople travel t once t popular attractions inLondon—in effect, as Ricey ed, t te a lotabout t strictly correct. ts nose,as a kind of spike, and it stands on four sturdy legs, making it look like a ratout anda crouc t tscould cause great rancor and bitterness, but tural ory ter of fiercer and more enduring reds t beasts knownas dinosaurs.
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Orained as a doctor.
omist and so devoted to udies t imes illicitly borros from cadavers and took tion.
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In 1825, aged just ty-one, Oo London and soon after o ensive, but disordered, collections ofmedical and anatomical specimens. Most of t to titution by Joer, a distinguisireless collector of medical curiosities, but alogued or organized, largely because ter er’s death.
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But it means “terrible lizard” and name. Dinosaurs, as all terrible—some s and probably extremelyretiring—and t empically tures ilian and ly good Greek for some reasonc to us