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Waterhouse Hawkins: dinosaur artist.
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August 1, 2003|
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Once, almost no one knew what a dinosaur looked like. Then, in 1852, an amazing artist named Waterhouse Hawkins teamed up with Sir Richard Owen, the scientist who created the word "dinosaur." Working together, they gave the world its first look at these extinct animals.
Waterhouse Hawkins loved making models of animals. He had made a jaguar for the queen of England and a group of bison for the emperor of Russia. He was the perfect artist to make the world's first life-size dinosaur models. They would stand in a park in England.
At that time, scientists had ...
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