Michael Taylor reveals how the discovery of dinosaur bones challenged ideas about natural history and religion in Victorian Britain
In the 19th century, people began to find strange and spectacular bones of “impossible monsters” in the earth. But what creatures could these bones belong to – and what did that mean both for religious beliefs and new evolutionary theories? Michael Taylor joins Rebecca Franks to discuss how the discovery of dinosaurs shook up Victorian Britain.
Michael Taylor is the author of Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion (Bodley Head, 2024)