Crystal Palace Dinos

Prehistoric Planet Ice Age promo card, Woolly mammoths.

Giant kangaroo Procoptodon from Prehistoric Planet Ice Age.

Homotherium serum from Prehistoric Planet Ice Age.

Years of work involving an amazing team at BBCSstudios Framestore AppleTV, our series #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge is out now on #AppleTV. Huge thanks to everyone involved. All 5 eps have been released!

Also:

FESTIVAL OF PARK TALKS

We'll be doing two talks, alongside the Crystal Palace Museum and @norwoodsociety.co.uk, and will also have a table of models and freebies.

11:30-3pm, inside the Crystal Palace Bowl Concert Platform. Tickets:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/festival-o...

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A promotional flyer showing a table with sketches of Dino heads, and George Baxter’s colour illustration of the Crystal Palace with fountains and Dinos

We will be at two free events in Crystal Palace Park, on Sun Dec 7th!

DRAWING DINOSAURS WITH EMMA THERESA JUDE
This is an observational drawing workshop (ages 16+) with Emma- an artist and geologist. All skill levels welcomed!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/drawing-di...

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We ❤️ Leicester

Our website is down - rude!

Maybe we should all revert to Comic Electric Telegraphy instead..

A large dinosaur peering through some trees.

This week’s blog post (bit.ly/49Uaonr) is all about dinosaurs. There are a surprising number to be found in parks and gardens, as it happens, in statue, fossil, tree and bird forms. Welcome to the Mesozoic! 🦖🦕🦤🌴

Scenes from the #SVP2025 #2025SVP #paleoart workshop. We had terrific talks from @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social, @tetzoo.bsky.social, @palaeojules.bsky.social and @bobnichollsart.bsky.social, as well as fantastic discussion from attendees. Thanks to everyone who contributed, I hope you all enjoyed it!

What car are you currently driving..?

Old colour footage of the Dinos is quite rare, and also an important asset.

This film was made during one of the “Iguanodons look they have goggly eyes due to excessive white paint” periods..

This is fascinating! Rather than doomscrolling for an hour, @thattalljacobite.bsky.social put his time into creating this digital diorama, with in-game species positioned in the classical Victorian way!

🏅 🏆 💯

just seen this - incredible! Will reskeet tomorrow ❤️

Newspaper photo. Flaming outlines of dinosaurs against a deep black background

“The Crystal Palace fireworks themselves again for the season! An elaborate set-piece of prehistoric beasts of “The Lost World””

from the Illustrated London News, 18th July 1925

Big displays by Brock’s Fireworks (usually unrelated to Nov 5th) were an annual attraction at the Palace

black and white photo. A Japanese film producer - hat, tie and shades - stands inbetween people in a King Kong and Crystal Palace standing Iguanodon costume

We missed Godzilla Day yesterday, but here’s an exclusive, never-before-seen photo from the set at Studio Toho!

This early design was supposedly due to creator Tomoyuki Tanaka‘s sympathy/solidarity towards Crystal Palace FC being relegated from the Third Division South in the 1953-54 season…

😱😱😱

A trio of Brontosaurus in a muddy wetland, one submerged up to its shoulders in water and the other two on the shore. The dinosaurs have a chunky, almost toy-like build and big, lizard-like eyes.

Check out these Brontosaurus by William Scheele, painted for a 1988 series of collectible cards. They’re so chunky and cute, almost like toys! They’re surprisingly muscular for the time, too. The arms on the one in the foreground are downright scary!

poor quality black and white scan. A lady looks up at the Crystal Palace Megatherium hugging its original(?!) oak tree, with a beautifully chonky left hand visible

Aaargh, another International <insert creature> Day!

BUT, this International Sloth Day allows us to share this v rare photo from 1922 - possibly the only one that shows what the original large hands of the Megatherium looked like!

(OG vs small hands is part of current restoration discussions…)

Incredible stuff from "Dinosaurs: Fun, Fact, and Fantasy", 1982, with the voice of the legendary Derek Griffiths

Why look: a box of some sort of newish, bookish things arrived this morning. Seems to be about spinosaurid #dinosaurs... coauthored with @davehone.bsky.social... and published by Bloomsbury. Available 6th of November In the UK; then worldwide in early 2026.

Colour photo. Closeup of the side face of the standing Iguanodon - a fresh pastel spearmint coat of paint. The dirty fingers of a conservator are poking through fresh white teeth

A flashback to one of our favourite photos, taken during conservation work on the standing Iguanodon back in 2015, by Lynn Hilton❤️💚

(www.lynnhilton.com)

The models have been on display at the Martorell Exhibitions Centre. Not sure if this is a permanent exhibition(?)

Thanks again to @dr-squiddy.bsky.social for sending these

bsky.app/profile/dr-s...

black and white photo. Close-up of a model glyptodon head. it has quite the facial expression

A very good morning from this unimpressed glyptodon model - which was to be one of twelve real scale sculptures in Ciutadella Park, Barcelona.

Only a mammoth was completed before the project ended in 1910

(All the models are here:
mdc.csuc.cat/digital/coll...)

Pterosaurs restored with bat like wings flying above a gorgeous landscape. Check out the rays of the sun and those ferns

Megalosaurus looking a little leaner than its usual representation and again a stunning and detailed landscape

The iconic Crystal Palace Iguanadon

What could have been…

They really did choose some truly iconic artwork for this book, and I think this would be my first ever encounter of the fabled @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social since my copy is from 1988 and I’d only been alive a few years at that point 😅 Some truly beautiful vintage Palaeoart on display here

(2.5km)

Very zoomed in phone shot of the tip of a radio transmitter tower. A grey ribbed cylinder ends with a mesh of black metal

Adventures with a new birding scope!

The very top of the Crystal Palace transmitting station - the highest point in London (thanks to the 109m hill it is on)

Taken from 2.5lm away. 75x zoom, with 6x phone camera zoom

Birds do occasionally chill up there, but haven’t managed to line up a shot yet

A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?

The amazing @jedtaylorartist.bsky.social did this, “Jurassic Park 1854”, many years ago 👌

Black and white book illustrations. Various antediluvian reptiles (and glyptodonts), many of them Crystal Palace-inspired, are emerging from a cave directly toward the viewer

“Do not all these beings who preceded man and who are emerging from their tombs today seem like monsters?

Yet they are connected to us by original bonds”

Translated from “Le monde avant la création de l'homme” (The world before the creation of humankind), by Camille Flammarion. Art by Georges Devy

Selection of drawings of dinosaurs and pterosaurs and kin in a mosaic with cover of the Mesozic Art 2

The spectacularly produced new art book, Mesozoic Art II, hit the shelves! I happen to be one of the artists featured in the line-up of fantastic people who bring the dead back to life! A great opportunity to talk about my creative journey 🧵

We were thinking this could have been the world’s first bouncy castle - which would have blown Edwardian minds - but we were only gifted them in 1959!

At least he knew they were there - we’ve heard stories of parents taking their kids to Hyde Park or Regents Park..