But since the 1970s the ‘terrible lizards’ have clawed their way back in favour with palaeontologists. Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) was one of the most famous comparative anatomists of his time. Not ...

In 1845, British paleontologist Sir Richard Owen announced the discovery of a new species based on fossils uncovered in South Africa. At the time, he had only found remnants of the creature's ...

Sir Richard Owen was the leading comparative anatomist and palaeontologist of his time. A controversial figure, he is perhaps best known for coining the word dinosaur. The Owen collection dates ...

Discover how whales were at the heart of Richard Owen's original proposal for a museum of natural history in Britain. The founding of the Natural History Museum in London can be traced back to the ...

In 1856 Sir Richard Owen - the natural scientist who came up with the name for dinosaurs - left his role as curator of the Hunterian Museum and took charge of the British Museum’s natural history ...

Giant kangaroos known as Protemnodon were first described in 1874 by British naturalist Sir Richard Owen, who differentiated them by their teeth, as was the custom of the time. "The teeth turned ...

He used a mixture of Gothic Revival and twelfth-century Romanesque-style architecture, in line with Museum founder Sir Richard Owen’s vision of creating a ‘cathedral to nature’. Waterhouse chose to ...