How mass extinctions drove the evolution of dinosaurs
Friday, January 3, 2014 - 05:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
For 20 privileged Victorians, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins held a lavish New Year's dinner party in 1853 inside a model of a dinosaur that was created for the Great Exhibition held two years earlier. Hawkins's models, which still stand in Crystal Palace Park in London, were the first life reconstructions of dinosaurs. They gripped the public imagination, and dinosaurs have never left it since.