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Although this is a Greek word it wasn’t created by the Greeks and I say ‘created’ because it’s a combined one. Δεινός (dinos) means ‘terrible’ or in this case ‘mighty’. Σαύρα (savra) means ‘lizard’. In 1841 the palaeontologist Sir Richard Owen decided to name the fossils of extinct reptiles that had been found but had not been named. ΔΕΙΝΟΣΑΥΡΟΙ/DINOSAURS

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