Looks like you had a great day Neil! A shame about the rain. Respect to the student that brought binoculars 🙏

This was a good listen, but no shout-out to the Crystal Palace Megalosaurus 🙂‍↔️

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He attended a poultry show at the Crystal Palace on 11/08/1857, and “returned rather soured in temper”

The standing Crystal Palace Iguanodon is comprised of: “4x iron columns, 9 feet long by 7 inches diameter [the legs] 600 bricks 650 5-inch half-round drain-tiles 900 plain tiles 38 casks of cement 90 casks of broken stone 100 feet of iron-hooping 20 feet of cube inch bar”

We’ll do an overdue thread on the new pterosaur heads very soon, at the very least..

We aim to document the whole of the recent conservation work, with contributions from the key conservators 🙏

Inside the Megalosaurus! We were recently sent details of a visit done in March (before the recent conservation began) by the Historic England Structural Engineering Team The sheer amount of detail to go into warrants a thread or the dark arts of..*cackles above a cauldron*..a BLOG POST

Earlier today, one of the more rarer birds to be spotted among the Dinos - a (juvenile?) grey heron squaring off with the Dicynodons!

This is the stuffed body of Martha, the last known surviving passenger pigeon, on display in the Natural History Building of the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum circa 1920 Martha, poor lonely Martha, has an interesting connection to the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs... 🧵

This a fantastic display of these historic models, and we appreciate playing a part in the interpretation information 🙏 The gallery can be found on the Hintze Hall balcony - turn right at the giant sequoia tree slice ➡️