Richard Owen Research Paper

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Richard Owen was the first to capture the scientific investigation of dinosaurs in 1840’s. Richard Owen conclude “That three large fossil reptile, all from the southern England, shared features of the hip region lacking in other reptiles unusual features were all large, key feature showed how their bodies were specialized to carry a great amount of weight”(Naish and Barrett,2016, p.14-15). Richard Owen came up with the name dinosaurs which meant “terrible reptile. Dinosaurs fossils have been found before Richard by ancient Greeks, Romans and Chinese which thought the fossils were the remains of a hero’s or Monsters. Dinosaurs caught the interest of other scientists around the world during the early 1900’s. As the interest in the evolving of dinosaurs developed also came with scientist wanting to know how dinosaurs became extinct. Many controversial theories of dinosaur’s extinction surfaced such as volcanism -Deccan traps and Craters. Following these theories different researches put together pieces weak and strong evidence to find the initial cause of the dinosaur’s extinction and to discover which hypothesis has that best explain with the data representing it. Dinosaurs first evolved in the Mesozoic period (Age of the dinosaurs) on the known supercontinent called the Pangea. …show more content…
It was discovered in sediment of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. The Official name of the crater is called the Chicxulub crater, which was find by oil geologist looking for sites in 1978, but wasn’t connected to Walter evidence until 1990. The Chicxulub was the right size, age and happen at the right time from Walters collected evidence. The location was in the right location and shocked quartz (found in craters, formed by the pressure of an impact of the meteoroid and tektites (glassy fragments that form when there is a meteoroid impact), that proves and impact