Description: Lord John Roxton (A fictional title derived from the English parish of Roxton, Bedfordshire) is a supporting character in Conan Doyle's Professor Challenger series of stories, making his initial appearance in The Lost World. At least two of the characters in Michael Crichton's novel The Lost World mention a palaeontologist called John Roxton. However, Crichton's Roxton, who is never seen, is something of an idiot, wrongly identifying one dinosaur and publishing a report stating that the braincase of Tyrannosaurus rex is the same as that of a frog's and thus possesses a visual system attuned strictly to movement.

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