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London's 170-year-old dinosaurs are hilariously wrong but scientifically important

Monday August 11, 2025. 06:39 PM , from BoingBoing
Crystal Palace's concrete dinosaurs, which include beasts weighing up to 10,000 pounds, offer a fascinating glimpse into the birth of paleontology. The sculptures are completely inaccurate but wonderful nonetheless. They were created by natural history artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins in the 1850s, and were the world's first attempt to model prehistoric animals at full scale.  — Read the rest
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