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

Popkin
Aug 11, 2025
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Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, a series of sculptures of dinosaurs and other extinct animals in the London borough of Bromley's Crystal Palace Park, UK (Alexey Fedorenko/shutterstock.com)

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 comple…

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