Lost Victorian animal returns to Crystal Palace’s dinosaurs

A sculpture of an extinct animal that was created to go among the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs but vanished in the 1960s has been restored.
Palaeotherium magnum (c) Natural History Museum / James Balston
Palaeontologists, historians, and artists have collaborated to rebuild a Victorian-era sculpture of Palaeotherium magnum, a 2.2-meter-long, extinct mammal distantly related to horses, and it has been installed amongst the collection of dinosaurs at Crystal Palace.
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