Crystal Palace Park in South London has a number of “dinosaur” statues constructed from ca 1850 onwards. They are great, but not with modern eyes looks more like Pokemon than dinosaurs, as they the science of what dinosaurs might have looked like hadn’t exactly gotten very far.

If you zoom in on the background, you can see a couple of the other statues.

Here’s more on the Crystal Palace dinosaurs

  • Alchemy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Crystal Palace is such a cool name. Same region for the football club of the same name?

    • V H@lemmy.stad.socialOP
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      1 year ago

      Yes, same area. The name comes from The Crystal Palace, built for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Originally it stood in Hyde Park, but after the exhibition, it was moved and rebuilt at what is now Crystal Palace, miles away, in 1854. Unfortunately, the whole thing burnt down in 1936 after which it wasn’t rebuilt. Only some ruins are left in the middle of the park now.