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'Makes the JK Rowling films look tame' – Fantastic Beasts: The Wonder of Nature review

Natural History Museum, LondonThis is way more than a celebration of the film series, showcasing the oddest things in the museum collection, from a horrific mermaid ‘fossil’ to the skull of a Dracorex Hogwartsia
Evening all … from Richard Owen’s album of sightings. Photograph: Lucie Goodayle Image Resources/Natural History Museum

Although his nickname was Sea Serpent Killer, is best known today as the founder of the Natural History Museum, and as an all-round rival-crushing anti-Darwinian scoundrel. This Victorian scientist didn’t actually sail the oceans massacring monsters, but he did set out to prove such creatures were tall tales told by sailors, collecting reports in an album so he could expose them. It’s in the museum’s new show about natural mysteries, open at a

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