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 ...

Richard Owen loathed small mammals, calling them “ratlike, shrewlike forms of the most stupid and unintelligent order of sucklers.” That wouldn’t have mattered if Owen weren’t one of the ...

The idea that Owen was a hardcore creationist partly stems from the fact that few understood just what he was talking about. Owen had publicly broached the idea of evolution in the 1840s, but his ...

Susannah Maidment, Jan. 9, Email exchange with USA TODAY The Complete Dinosaur, 2012, Chapter Two - Politics and Paleontology: Richard Owen and the Invention of Dinosaurs ...

A reconstruction of an adult and juvenile Thecodontosaurus. From Benton, 2012. When British anatomist Richard Owen coined the term “Dinosauria” in 1842, there were nowhere near as many ...

In the 1841 lecture in which he coined the term dinosaurs, British paleontologist Richard Owen also described the appearance of this new class of fossil vertebrates. To Owen, dinosaurs seemed to ...

Neither here nor there, neither warm nor cold, Owen was seemingly a walking contradiction, and his scientific work is the subject of Nicolaas Rupke's biography Richard Owen: Biology Without Darwin.

Within the pantheon of Victorian-era naturalists, there was no villain more sinister than Richard Owen. That’s what I had always been taught, anyway. Though undeniably brilliant, teachers and ...

The British paleontologist Richard Owen is probably best known today for creating the word "dinosaurs" in 1841. But he was interested in more than just dinosaurs. He was also fascinated by the ...

Doctors Afield Archive Richard Owen (1804–1892), Naturalist and Anti-Darwinist Author: Captain Robert K. Moxon, (MC), USN Author Info & Affiliations Published July 5, 1962 N Engl J Med 1962;267: ...