Stones To Stories: The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs with Mark Witton

Send me a voice message! Plymouth, summer of 1841. Richard Owen stepped before the British Association for the Advancement of Science and coined a word that would reshape our understanding of the deep past: Dinosauria. This episode follows that word from Owen’s meeting hall to South London, where sculptor Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins turned fragmentary bones into life-size stone giants. I am joined by palaeoartist and author Mark Witton for a conversation about the history of the site and then...