the Rev. Richard Owen, has been based on such a large amount of material that “the writer's chief difficulty has been to compress the biography within reasonable limits.” While acknowledging ...

Until 1842, no one had heard of the word ‘dinosaur’. But when acclaimed anatomist Richard Owen grouped three prehistoric animals with curious features in common, he changed the way the world thought ...

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 ...