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"Back in the 1840s, when Richard Owen first described giant bones in England, he named them Dinosauria: terrible lizards. That was still the most accurate description of these creatures, Malcolm thought.

They were indeed like lizards, and they were terrible."

"Inside the flames Levine saw a long pointed snout, and rows of sharp predatory teeth, and hollow eye sockets, the whole thing burning like some medieval dragon rising in flames up into the sky."

"Malcolm had, in fact, been reported dead in several newscasts. 'I was sorry to cut short the celebrations in mathematics departments around the country,' he later said,
'but it turned out I was only slightly dead. The surgeons have done wonders, as they will be the first to tell you.

So now I am back—in my next iteration, you might say.”