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Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

Bluebells in High Park Wood, East Sussex, April 2026
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150,000,000 B.C. - The Prehistoric Monsters of Crystal Palace - rare 1968 pamphlet features this photograph of the standing Iguanodon in camouflage painting.
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Crystal Palace Dinosaurs – Rare 1968 Pamphlet – 150,000,000 B.C.

“150,000,000 B.C.” is a rare pamphlet about the Crystal Palace dinosaurs and other statues by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins created in the 1850s in Crystal Palace Park, Sydenham. It was published by the Greater London Council […]

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