My reconstruction of our from I chose in a vivid pallete, inspired by Scottish illustrator travel sketches from the Hebrides. Finished with fineliner and coloured pencil.

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Etching of the Sussex quarry where Hylaeosaurus, Iguanodon and “other stupendous creatures" were discovered in the early 1800s. From Mantell’s 1853 guide to the British Museum's gallery of organic remains, “Petrifacations and their Teachings”.

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The first Polacanthus? J.E. Lee described this section of ankylosaur sacral shield from Isle of Wight in 1843, but the story doesn’t end there. I blogged about the tale of the lost ankylosaur back in 2014: https://t.co/75bw4q66aE

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We can play! Some more images associated with yesterday's article: https://t.co/T30z34KRw0. The first is an older image by WitmerLab member Ryan Ridgely, whereas expertly generated the other two. Captions here: https://t.co/FG9lbYcU8o.

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Akainacephalus obviously takes centre stage for but since you can never have enough thyreophorans here's some of the spiky stegosaur Tuojiangosaurus.

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again eh? Here's 's rendition of Saurian's male Ankylosaurus.

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now too? What a glorious time to be alive!

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