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tetzoo.bsky.social
Brilliant day at Crystal Palace, looking at the models with their new paint jobs and tidied bodies. A lot of great new detail to see.
Megalosaurus model at Crystal Palace, Darren Naish in foreground. Iguanodon models at Crystal Palace. Palaeotherium magnum, new model. Giant sloth Megatherium at Crystal Palace.
August 16, 2026 at 8:16 PM
bobnichollsart.bsky.social
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

A reconstruction of the lost Crystal Palace #Palaeotherium (2023), by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. Commissioned by
@cpdinosaurs.bsky.social with guidance from @nhm-london.bsky.social & @markwitton.bsky.social. Part 1 of 5.

#SciArt #PaleoArt #CrystalPalacePark
July 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
markwitton.bsky.social
(Addendum: the sculptures were being illuminated as we left. Sadly @gizz47.bsky.social and I had to bail before the effect was fully realised, but @bobnichollsart.bsky.social's Palaeotherium magnum had already attained a fetching shade of red, and **relocated!!** Xiphodon was a cool magenta.)
July 16, 2026 at 8:50 PM
tetzoo.bsky.social
Much has been done with the Paleogene mammals. The vaguely camel-like anoplotheres have mostly been repainted. The palaeothere Plagiolophus minor has been repaired and how has a new head, plus the MISSING Palaeotherium magnum has reappeared due to creation of a new model by Bob Nicholls. AND...
Two anoplotheres. The one at the back is posed as if shaking, having just left the water. Newly revamped model of Plagiolophus minor, now with a new head that's correct according to the original. Standing palaeothere, looking right and superficially tapir-like. The new model built to replace the previously missing big Palaeotherium magnum. Old illustrations and photos demonstrate its original presence but no one knows what happened to the original.
August 17, 2026 at 10:20 AM
bobnichollsart.bsky.social
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

A reconstruction of the lost Crystal Palace #Palaeotherium (2023), by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. Commissioned by
@cpdinosaurs.bsky.social with guidance from @nhm-london.bsky.social & @markwitton.bsky.social. Part 1 of 5.

#SciArt #PaleoArt #CrystalPalacePark
July 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
bobnichollsart.bsky.social
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

A reconstruction of the lost Crystal Palace #Palaeotherium (2023), by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. Commissioned by @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social with guidance from @nhm-london.bsky.social & @markwitton.bsky.social. Part 1 of 5.

#SciArt #PaleoArt #CrystalPalacePark
July 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
bobnichollsart.bsky.social
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

A reconstruction of the lost Crystal Palace #Palaeotherium (2023), by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. Commissioned by
@cpdinosaurs.bsky.social with guidance from @nhm-london.bsky.social & @markwitton.bsky.social. Part 4 of 5.

#SciArt #PaleoArt #CrystalPalacePark
July 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
andersonmineral.bsky.social
The ammonite Rasenia showing an iridescent nacre from Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, UK. #FossilFriday
Spiral ridged ammonite with a layer of blue green nacre along the top. Sits on a beige background with a fossil bone above it and a palaeotherium tooth(?) to its right. At the Sedgwick Museum.
December 13, 2024 at 12:30 PM
bobnichollsart.bsky.social
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

A reconstruction of the lost Crystal Palace #Palaeotherium (2023), by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. Commissioned by
@cpdinosaurs.bsky.social with guidance from @nhm-london.bsky.social & @markwitton.bsky.social. Part 4 of 5.

#SciArt #PaleoArt #CrystalPalacePark
July 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
richardfallon.bsky.social
Just came across this picture of the Natura Docet museum in Denekamp on someone's blog (www.dimrost.nl/WordPress/i-...). Looks a bit like a Crystal Palace Palaeotherium out the front.
September 16, 2026 at 3:54 PM
cpdinosaurs.bsky.social
We’ve been back in the Park this afternoon, with FCPD volunteer and project partner Rhys doing some more photogrammetry (3D modelling prep via lots of photographs) of our recently-restored Palaeotherium magnum, and Anoplotherium

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colour photo. a man in orange hi-vis jacket and green hard hat is kneeling next to our Palaeotherium model, using a digital SLR camera to take photos of the underside of its belly colour photo. a man in orange hi-vis jacket and green hard hat leans against a tree by the edge of the Park lake, holding a camera on a long stick above our Anoplotherium with raised head by the water’s edge
February 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
tetzoo.bsky.social
Internet here is terrible so mostly having to give up at this point. Currently Ellinor Michel on what's happened to Crystal Palace sculptures after the Witton & Michel book. The Crystal Palace group have bought 3D prints with them :)
Ellinor Michel with slide on screen showing new Palaeotherium model made by Bob Nicholls. 3D prints of Crystal Palace dinosaurs and temnospondyl on a table.
March 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
mrspringjunkie.bsky.social
Here are some drawings that I just finished, I'm still on break but these are drawings of

Anoplotherium Commune

Palaeotherium Magnum

And Veterupristisaurus Milneri
April 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
paleontologizing.bsky.social
🦏 Happy #WorldRhinoDay! 🦏

We're talking all about the fossil history, evolution, diversity, and ecology of rhinos, both living and extinct -- and you're welcome to join us, hang out, and chat LIVE at the link below 👇🏽
Twitch screenshot of me in my office, surrounded by framed scientific figures of fossil rhinos, plus a 3D-printed Palaeotherium skull and one of an extinct tapir, too
September 22, 2026 at 9:11 PM
smclabby.bsky.social
Is he milking the Palaeotherium?
February 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
restingdinoface.bsky.social
I remember seeing Stephen Jay Gould talking about Cuvier and Palaeotherium when I was little, so I read his essays while I rode the bus between college classes. I think I was pretty well-primed by the time I decided to start writing. And yeah that probably contributed to my sense of shut up Richard
June 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
biodiversitypix.bsky.social
🐘 Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur /.
Erlangen: Expedition des Schreber'schen säugthier- und des Esper'schen Schmetterlingswerkes [etc., 1774]-1846..

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Historical illustration depicting a full-body side view of a tapir labeled "Tapirus villosus Wagn." The tapir has a stocky body with short legs, a rounded back, small ears, and a distinctive short, flexible snout. Surrounding the tapir are detailed scientific drawings of four different skulls labeled "Tapirus villosus," "Palaeotherium," "Tapirus bicolor," and "Tapirus Suillus," showing variations in skull shape and teeth arrangement. The image combines anatomical and zoological study typical of 18th-19th century natural history works.
October 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
girlinthe.bsky.social
But fear not! A replacement has been made:

"The magnificent new sculpture was finally unveiled on the Tertiary island on 2nd July 2023 to a large crowd of Palaeotherium enthusiasts."

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Animal model similar to the previous, but it's grey, it looks more sad than starting, and it's not is more obviously flared at the end.
September 12, 2026 at 7:20 PM
danielhernbar.bsky.social
Hoy me toca volver a hablar de mamíferos perisodáctilos (mamíferos herbívoros con número impar de dedos), porque hoy toca volver con un #Fósilhilo dedicado a alguno de los fósiles de la #SalaDeLasTortugas que aparecen en la #Geonovela. Hoy os hablo del #holotipo de Palaeotherium giganteum.
November 22, 2024 at 10:01 AM
loveisabunnyrabbit.bsky.social
Fuckin, specimen
A grey concrete Palaeotherium magnum statue in crystal Palace Park. It is quite smooth and about four and a half feet tall. A bunny is pointing at it.
July 6, 2023 at 4:44 PM
maijakarala.bsky.social
Close-ups of each habitat depicted above, with named genera of plants (plus a single speculative animal). It reads almost like a botanical garden of rare conifers. What a magical ecosystem!

Due to the nature of amber, it's not really known whether these all grew at the same area and time or not.
Illustration of a floodplain environment from the Baltic Amber Forest, with the ground covered by water from a nearby flooded river. The trees include a tall redwood tree as well as bald cypress, chinquapin, oak and palm trees. They are not the exact same species alive today, but pretty similar. Illustrations of a coastal brackish and peat bog environments of the Baltic Amber Forest. Brackish only includes a single tree - a smallish redwood-like conifer of the genus Cupressospermum, a now-extinct holdout from the Cretaceous. On the peat bog, undergrowth is yellowish peat moss, and there are four trees: a small pine, a chinquapin, an umbrella pine, and a large sugi tree. The latter three are today only found in Eastern Asia. Illustration of a mixed forest and meadow environment of the Baltic Amber Forest, featuring numerous different plants, both conifers and flowering plants. There are oaks, pines, firs and hemlocks as well as plum yew, chestnut trees and incense cedar. In the undergrowth, there are unnamed grasses and sedges as well as carnivorous plants (Roridulaceae), holly and ferns. One of the trees has a dwarf mistletoe causing a malformation of a branch. There is a Palaeotherium, a vaguely horselike early perissodactyl, walking in the meadow. Large animals are now preserved in amber, but this genus was widepread in Europe at the time.
August 27, 2025 at 8:11 AM
girlinthe.bsky.social
¡One of the mammals once went missing!

The "charmingly dour" palaeotherium magnum wandered off in the 1960s to have its own adventures in south London.
Old fashioned colour photo of a quadruped seen from the side. It's shaped like a stocky horse, but the of its head curves into a flexible nose like a tapir. It's brown all over except for its wild staring yellow eye.
September 12, 2026 at 7:16 PM
kimondo.bsky.social
Visited the new Dinosaur in Crystal Palace Park - technically not a dinosaur, Palaeotherium magnum a sort of horsey, made to replace one that vanished in the 1970s. Is probably in the lake with the head of the Danté statue.
Photo of a Palaeotherium magnum (horsey extinct mammal) stood surround by plants in Crystal Palace Park
July 15, 2023 at 6:49 PM
chrismanias.bsky.social
Will feature responses to the book from Ilja Nieuwland, Elsa Panciroli and (newly added to the program) Irina Podgorny
 
Plus images from the history of fossil mammals, art from Mark Witton, (parts of) "the Hydrarchos or Leviathan!," and material from Friends of the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
An illustration of the early Gallery of Palaeontology in the Muséum d'histoire naturelle in Paris in the 1880s. Various figures in 19th century dress can be seen observing the skeletons of a fossil elephant – called ‘the elephant of Durfort - and a Megatherium. Around the edges of the room are various bones and specimens, including a skeleton of a giant deer. A painting by Mark Witton of Arsinoitherium zitteli, a large quadruped from the Eocene of Egypt, standing in the twilight. It is depicted in side-on view as a large quadruped, with two extremely large horns and tufted ears. In the bottom right of the painting, a calf of the same animal can be seen. An early-19th century broadsheet, advertising the display of "The Hydrarchos or Leviathan!" Under the title is an engraving of the Hydrarchos constructed to look like a great sea serpent, with small figures in 19th century dress observing the specimen. The restored sculpture of Palaeotherium magnum by Bob Nicholls, in a leafy section of Crystal Palace Park. It is a grey quadruped in fibreglass, with a large tapir-like snout and large eyes
August 28, 2023 at 4:18 PM
explodey.bsky.social
The Labyrinth remake is looking weird
Squirrel riding Palaeotherium in Crystal Palace Park
August 28, 2024 at 7:40 AM