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https://gizmodo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/13/cnt2bdje3jtcabx3d1ly.jpg?quality=751024576Alan Charig was a dinosaur superfan long before Jurassic Park. The gregarious palaeontologist and curator at the British Museum of Natural History studied and described all sorts of new creatures, and brought them to the world through his writings and on his BBC Television show in the ’70s.