Sir Richard Owen KCB FRMS FRS (1804 – 1892) with a giant moa skeleton, c1879. Owen was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist who was an opponent of Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection. He is also remembered today for coining the word Dinosauria (from which we get Dinosaur).

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