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Dec 31st 1853 Just before midnight. Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, bloated and drunk from the feast in the Iguanodon - stumbles back into his workshed, having missed the last carriage home from the Crystal Palace He takes another look at his sculptures, and begins sketching hastily on his blackboard

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Happy 226th birthday to the legendary and inspirational Mary Anning, seen here with the Crystal Palace Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus and Ichthyosaurus platydon - locked in combat of the type so prevalent in the paleoart of the time. (We’re v sorry for editing out/crushing her faithful dog, Tray!)

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Melissa is fantastic, and an old volunteer friend of ours. She will also be at the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival in a few weeks!

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A glorious day to re-visit the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social #Grade1Listed #HistoricEngland #CrystalPalace

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We’re going back to 26/08/1982, and this v rare colour footage from a Thames News report Note the tail damage on the sprawling Iguanodon and the poor condition of the paint Mucky Megalosaurus! It was repainted green not long after this (This banger by Yazoo was No.7 in the charts at the time)

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Today is May 13th, which means my new book, King Tyrant: A Natural History of #Tyrannosaurus rex is OUT NOW! Published by @princetonupress.bsky.social, this is the biggest and most detailed synthesis ever published on one of the best understood and most studied of all #dinosaurs. Thread follows...

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Another Crystal Palace Park Regeneration Plan article on the BBC News website this morning, featuring a video clip with HTA Design and the Crystal Palace Park Trust www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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A long overdue visit to Crystal Palace Dinosaurs this morning! @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social

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🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏

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On VE Day, we thought we would share what we believe could be the only photo from WW2 that features one of the statues.. the Megatherium/ground sloth! www.iwm.org.uk/collections/... (1943) CP Park was closed & occupied by the MoD during WW2, and this is from a Royal Army Service Corps photoshoot

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🚨 IMPORTANT 🚨 The Crystal Palace Park Trust have a new updates page for the Regeneration Plan for the park www.crystalpalaceparktrust.org/pages/park-r... To summarise, contractors will begin setting up in the park on May 19th, and it is likely that restoration work will begin shortly after 1/

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For #Maythe4th, our extremely tenuous and niche link between Star Wars and Victorian dinosaurs: The Millennium Falcon's gunner controls were apparently taken from the Iron Mole, the giant drill vehicle from AT THE EARTH’S CORE, 1976 (note: Peter Cushing in both films!)

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Beautiful photos, and great timing - the paths around the lake are likely to be closed in a matter of weeks (more info when we have it..)

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This afternoon in Crystal Palace Park: a pair of Egyptian Geese trying not to laugh at the Mosasaurus, who has developed a case of "beardy weeds" over the last couple of weeks 🧔

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Work in Progress 🤷

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We don’t like movie spoilers There’s a photo showing the new scary/disturbing/weird/wrong Jurassic World Rebirth monster going round, so we thought we would put the friendly, plant-eating Crystal Park Hylaeosaurus in its place Have a great weekend, everyone ❤️

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The OG Crystal Palace opened 174 years ago today.. Among the staff was one Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins - the “Assistant Superintendent of Textile Manufacturers”..

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Something interesting - an early, 1852 layout of the Crystal Palace Park and grounds We can't help but notice a distinct lack of a Geological Court/dinosaur-sized lake! We still don't know who actually suggested/greenlit it, but we're glad they attended that meeting.. (archive.org/details/work...)

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Excellent. We’ve never been, but there should be a couple of other bits of his still on display there.. (At some point we’ll attempt a thread that summarises his pre-Crystal Palace activities. We found an absolute doozy earlier today..)

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New paper: The past, present and future of Megalosaurus bucklandii in paleoart. I review the #paleoart history of this oft-depicted #dinosaur, consider its fluctuating status as a subject of artistic interest, and review what we know of its anatomy. #sciart meridian.allenpress.com/esh/article-...

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A new shot of the Jurassic World Rebirth Mosasaurus, alongside the OG!! (The Crystal Palace creature is one of only two statues deliberately left incomplete (the other being one of the Plesiosaurs), with only the head, back and right forelimb sculpted)

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@tetzoo.bsky.social - are you aware of these dino models, in the “Natura o Cultura?” exhibition at the Museu Martorell in Barcelona..?

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A beautiful day to glimpse inside the newly restored subway entrance to Crystal Palace park.

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A prehistoric animal (Hyphalosaurus) with two heads? Yes, THIS FOSSIL REALLY DOES EXIST, & it's on the cover of THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, by @deanrlomax.bsky.social & illustrated by me (@columbiaup.bsky.social). Available to pre-order now! #SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Fossils #WildlifeArt

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#StGeorge and the Pterodactyl (1873), by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins of @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social fame, to illustrate his suggestion that #dragon 🐲 legends may have been inspired by encounters with living pterosaurs #StGeorgesDay Not sure how the octopus fits in 🐙

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Walking the ruins in Crystal Palace Park…

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Over the Easter weekend, this dropped - regarding the restoration of the sculptures as part of a wider funded regeneration plan for Crystal Palace Park, starting soon! More updates from us soon on this.. (Press release: www.crystalpalaceparktrust.org/pages/park-r...)

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Today, thanks to the Crystal Palace Park Trust, we attended a visit by some sixth formers to the island swing bridge (crowdfunded in 2018) and a demonstration by Cake Industries - the very talented creator!

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After a couple of recent bad results, we are shocked and delighted to see the proposed revamped Crystal Palace lineup for Wembley next Saturday…unstoppable!

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Temnospondyls were a group of large primitive tetrapod amphibians, which our Labyrinthodons belonged to This article summarises a fascinating recent find in Wyoming: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/e... (Kenneth Williams is here because the fossil cache was found in..NOBBY KNOB 🙈)

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Temnospondyls were a group of large primitive tetrapod amphibians, which our Labyrinthodons belonged to This article summarises a fascinating recent find in Wyoming: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/e... (Kenneth Williams is here because the fossil cache was found in..NOBBY KNOB 🙈)

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