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- Gideon Algernon Mantell, the scientist who first described an herbivorous dinosaurIguanodonIguanodon is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids and the ornithopods' culmination in the duck-billed dinosaurs...
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