Why did Lord John want to capture a Pterodactyl to take back to

England?​

Lord John wanted to capture a Pterodactyl and take it back to England to show the world that the claims made by Professor Challenger were true.

Explanation:

The question concerns the novel, The Lost World, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The novel is an adventure of four men into the lost world of South America where a world of dinosaurs was established.

In the book, Lord John Roxton wanted to capture a Pterodactyl and take it back to England because he wanted to show it as a proof to Professor George Challenger's claim that dinosaurs still exist in a remote part of the world.

The textual evidence is,

"‘Don’t you think other people besides Professors can

want to know things?’"

for example: in, he, a,from

the anwser is went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea.

i longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—africa, india, china and peru!

and, dreaming of the lands i had never seen, i'd sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.