Labels:text | footwear OCR: GIANT LIZARD ENGLISH MUSEUM curator Robert Plot (1640-96) made a drawing of a fossilized leg bone in 1677. At first he thought the bone belonged to an ancient elephant, but after comparing it with the bones of a modern elephant he decided it must be a giant human bone. The fossil has long since disappeared, but the drawing suggests it was part of the thighbone of Megalosaurus, whose name means "giant lizard." FOSSILIZED THIGHBONE This is a copy of Robert Plot's original sketch of Megalosaurus' thighbone. MEGALOSAURUS FOSSILS
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