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The Cefn Reptile and the “Times”

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THE remarkable paragraph in the Times of the week before last relating to the discovery of “a huge beast of the lizard tribe,” in a cave at Cefn near St. Asaph, implies a belief on the part of the editorial staff that such an addition to the British fauna was not impossible, and its wide circulation proves the astonishing credulity of the public:—

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DAWKINS, W. The Cefn Reptile and the “Times”. Nature 3, 7–8 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/003007g0

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