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Hello and welcome to I know Dino. I'm Garrett.

And I'm Sabrina.

And today we're going to talk about Nukosaurus and some dinosaur news.

So first in the news, Sir Richard Owen, who is the man who named dinosaurs dinosaurs in 1842,

was recently given an honor by the Society of Biology.

They gave him a plaque at Lancaster Royal Grammar School,

and it's a part of a new series of recognitions all around the UK,

celebrating, quote, eminent but sometimes unsung heroes of biology. So he was a paleontologist who rose from a poor background in Lancashire, and he became close to

what you could consider a celebrity scientist today.

His biggest contribution to paleontology, I think, besides naming dinosaurs, was that he became

the superintendent of the Natural History Department at the British Museum in 1856. And while he was there,

he determined that the Natural History Department didn't have enough space. So he actually started a

project to expand it and moved it into its current building, which is in South Kensington today.

But actually, the Natural History Museum wasn't called the Natural History Museum until much later.

And that's because it was considered

part of the British Museum, and it was often called the British Museum, and then in

parentheses it would say natural history for that building, until 1963, which was almost

100 years after the building was made, and it wasn't actually renamed the Natural History Museum until it was

fully separated in 1992. Dr. David Williams, who is a current fossil and algae researcher at the

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