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Forget what you saw in Jurassic Park! Hilarious images reveal what scientists thought dinosaurs looked like in the 1800s – and what we really know they looked like now

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From Jurassic Park to Walking with Dinosaurs, blockbuster movies usually depict dinosaurs as terrifying beasts. 

But, look back just a few hundred years, and this definitely wasn’t the case.

With only a few fragments of bones to guide them, early palaeontologists arrived at some pretty goofy ideas of what dinosaurs may have looked like. 

From clumsy creatures resembling scaly rhinos to today’s fearsome feathered beasts, depictions of dinosaurs have changed a lot since their first discovery.

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Meet the history buff who has collected more than 200,000 maps, from a ‘beautiful’ 1800s survey of London to a rare illustration that Flat Earthers believe proves their point…

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This man’s map collection is off the charts.

David Rumsey, 79, has acquired more than 200,000 maps over four decades, with a collection that spans from around 1500AD to the present day. 

The collector, who is based in San Francisco, reveals he had been ‘fascinated by maps’ since childhood. Speaking to MailOnline Travel, he says: ‘I grew up with National Geographic maps on all the walls of my bedroom. I would lie in bed and look at all of them

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