The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, also known as Court, are a series of sculptures of and extinct mammals located in Crystal Palace, London. Commissioned in 1852 and unveiled in 1854, they were the first dinosaur sculptures in the world, pre-dating the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of by six years. Designed and sculpted by Waterhouse with the help of Richard Owen, they were Grade II listed from 1973, extensively restored in 2002 and upgraded to Grade I listed in 2007.

The models themselves are now considered out of date and to varying degrees inaccurate.

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