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Richard Owen and his Gorgonops

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PART 1 Thomas Jefferson and his Ground Sloth fav.me/d7g6m1e  

PART 2 Mary Anning and her Ichthyosaur fav.me/d7ybszx

PART 3 Charles Darwin and his Toxodon fav.me/d80hum8

PART 4 Gideon Mantell and his Iguanodon fav.me/d826xjg

PART 5 William Buckland and his Megalosaur fav.me/d83zg9s

PART 6 Hermann von Meyer and his Archaeopteryx fav.me/d86761e

PART 7 Georges Cuvier and his Mastodon fav.me/d88cp56

PART 8 Edward D. Cope and his Dimetrodon fav.me/d89umu9

PART 9 Othniel C. Marsh and his Triceratops fav.me/d8bp0tr

PART 10 Eduard Suess and his Struthiosaurus fav.me/d8e0aqc

PART 11 Richard Owen and his Gorgonops

PART 12 Johann Blumenbach and his Megaloceros fav.me/d8if1nn

PART 13 Barbara Rawdon-Hastings and her Diplocynodon fav.me/d8ks10o

PART 14 Wilhelm Lund and his Smilodon fav.me/d8lk4x6

PART 15 Lawrence Lambe and his Edmontosaurus fav.me/d8s02lr

PART 16 Edmond Hebert and his Gastornis fav.me/d90r8ay

PART 17 Joseph Leidy and his Direwolf fav.me/d9598c5

PART 18 Barnum Brown and his T-Rex fav.me/d977xsf

PART 19 Immanuel Walch and his Trilobites fav.me/d9a1qc9

Indeed the link between reptilie and mammal!

Thats right, the guy who invented the word „Dinosaur:dinosrawr: , and I did not give him one. Why did I do that? Because Dinosaurs did not play an important part in his scientific career. Richard Owen, who was born in 1804, is considered the second greatest Victorian Naturalist Say It... BRITISH – right after Charles Darwin. He was a Zoologist, Anatomist and Paleontologist. He wrote important works on comparative Osteology , introduced the terms Homology and Analogy and also revised some of Georges Cuviers works on classification.

Owen was the first to recognize the Synapsids (he called them Anomodontia) when large numbers of fossils where brought from South Africa. In 1876 he named Gorgonops torvus, an extinct Therapsid from the late Permian, around 250.000.000 years ago.

While Curator of the Natural History collections at the British Museum Owen advocated the building of a separate Natural History museum, to give all the specimens the room they needed. Thus in 1881 the Natural History Museum of London :bademoticon: was founded and Owen became its first director.

However Owen did not get along very well with his fellow scientists –he outright hated Charles Darwin, and fought what I like to call “the Bone Wars prequel” with Gideon Mantell.

Photograph of Richard Owen upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…

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By the way: Richard Owen actually is the villain in the Web Comic "Dawn of Time" www.dawnoftimecomics.com/index…

 

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