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Article: Dad wonders: Why do kids dig dinosaurs? (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- February 15, 1994
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Dinosaurs were discovered by a woman, identified by a man and stolen by children. In 1822, while on an excursion in Sussex, England, a Mrs. Gideon Mantell was walking up and down in a new road cutting when she spied some recently unearthed bones. She showed them to her husband, who took them to the British Museum.
By purest chance, while Dr. Mantell was trying vainly to classify the huge fossil teeth his wife had found, another man, an expert in lizard taxonomy, pointed out how similar the teeth were to those of an iguana. ``Iguanodon'' thus became the first dinosaur known to science. Thanks to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's ``The Lost World,'' dinosaurs were brought into the ...
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