THE GREAT FINGER FIASCO: HERMANN AND CUVIER
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Johann Hermann's Pterodactylus, 1800In the grand annals of science, few discoveries have flapped into history with quite as much confusion as the poor Pterodactylus. It began, as many great scientific mix-ups do, with an enthusiastic man, a misplaced fossil, and a few patriotic misunderstandings.Back in March of 1800, Johann Hermann — a German-slash-French scientist (depending on which
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