The English zoologist Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) was one of the greatest comparative anatomists of the 19th century. Richard Owen was born on July 20, 1804, in Lancaster, where he was apprenticed to a local surgeon in 1820. He studied medicine at the...

Sir Richard Owen was a comparative anatomist, paleontologist, and zoologist. He was the Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons, London, from 1836 to 1856. He then became the superintendent of the...

English biologist Sir Richard Owen was a comparative anatomist, paleontologist, and zoologist who originated the term "dinosaurus." After insisting that a group of fossils he observed belonged to a separate taxonomic order of extinct...

1804-1892 British paleontologist who studied many important fossils, including Charles Darwin's South American collection and the Jurassic age Archaeopteryx. Owen was passionate about evolution and argued against natural selection, insisting...

Sir Richard Owen KCB (July 20 1804–December 18 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. He was widely regarded as malicious and dishonest but he was also one of the most brilliant and influential biologists of his...

BP PLC recently agreed to pay millions in federal criminal fines over a 2006 oil spill in the nation's largest oil field, but state officials said Wednesday they are building a case to pursue their own damages related to two spills at Prudhoe Bay last...