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Are turtles dinosaurs?
Dinosaur:
Dinosaur is a term first used by Sir Richard Owens to describe groups of Mesozoic land reptiles in the Report of the Eleventh Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The term itself derived from the Greek word Deinos, which means "terrible" and Sauros "lizard".
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