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I'm in Crystal Palace Park, in south London,
and there are dinosaurs.

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Models of dinosaurs, anyway.
And inaccurate models at that:

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but that's because they're
more than 150 years old.

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These were the first ever lifesize models
of extinct creatures,

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built for the gardens
of the enormous Crystal Palace

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that used to stand
on top of that hill over there.

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They were made by the wonderfully-named
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins,

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we now know that they are utterly wrong
in many significant ways,

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but at the time they were a marvel:

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look at what once walked the earth!

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Now, in England, there's a list of buildings
that have special protection under the law.

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Buildings on that list are called...
Listed Buildings.

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Because they're on the list.

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Of buildings.

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And this country's full of them: Historic
England,

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the not-quite-government organisation
that manages the list,

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says there's about
half a million buildings on it.

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Most of those are only Grade 2 listed,

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which means they've got to be
kept mostly intact,

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and any changes need
a really good reason behind them,

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but more than 10,000 places
are Grade 1 listed,

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which means they must be preserved.

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Pretty much anything that was built more than 200 years ago and is still standing is on the list,

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but there are some more modern things too...
including these dinosaurs.

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Yep. Grade 1 listed dinosaurs.
Can't be changed, moved, or demolished,

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have to kept in good condition.

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And they can't be updated to reflect what
modern palaeontologists know,

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because that would involve changing them,

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and destroying not a dinosaur display --

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but a display about what we
once thought dinosaurs looked like,

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something that's notable not
because of what it represents in itself,

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but because of the history in the sculptures.

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These dinosaurs must, by law,
remain inaccurate,

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because the story they tell
isn't about prehistoric times...

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it's about science, just 150 years ago.

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I've done a video with Minute Earth about
Null Island,

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the busiest place that doesn't exist.

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You can check go it out on their channel.

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