Sentences with phrase «strange animal fossils»

In 1842, English anatomist Richard Owen proposed the term dinosauria for the strange animal fossils he and colleagues had begun to study.

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To Buckland, they also offered strange deposits he identified as fossil droppings (coprolites) of extinct giant saurians; his pioneering work opened up an entirely new field of study — identifying animal's diets — and speaks to his eccentricity.

CT scans of a unique 3D fossil offers the first look inside one of these strange creatures from before the dawn of true animals.