Quote by Richard Owen

"The collector who gathers specimens gathers the threads of creation."

Richard Owen
Paleontologist and Anatomist English 1804–1892

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"The Dinosauria form a distinct tribe or group of Saurian reptiles."
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"In the study of extinct creatures, we read the history of life itself."
"The fossil record is the autobiography of the earth."

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