Dr Anthony Butcher of Portsmouth University was lecturing a third year
group of palaeontology students ......
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| You Can See Why It Was Named 'Scrotum Humanum' |
on the importance of the worlds first
dinosaur fossil using a drawing of the Megalosaurus femur leg bone,
named 'Scrotum Humanum' in 1763, after being discovered in Oxfordshire, England in 1676 ....... because of what it looked like.
