Fossil Polishing Demonstration at Museum

Members of the public have the opportunity to take part in fossil polishing and learn the skills of fossil preparation next weekend (18th and 19th May), as experts will be demonstrating their skills and knowledge at the Lyme Regis Museum (Dorset, southern England).

If you have ever wondered how Ammonite fossils are prepared so that all the exquisite details of their internal structures are revealed, then pop down to the Lyme Regis Museum next weekend and meet up with renowned fossil experts Brandon Lennon and Chris Andrew who will be demonstrating how Ammonite fossils should be polished.  The fossil polishing team, recently attended the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival and over the course of the three day event they managed to prepare and polish in excess of 700 Ammonite specimens.  For a small fee, members of the public can have a go at preparing their very own Jurassic specimen and if they are lucky they will be able to purchase part of the amazing legacy of the famous Jurassic coast.

Brandon and Chris Being Kept Very Busy at the Recent Fossil Festival

Brandon Lennon (background) and Chris Andrew (foreground) working with Ammonites.

Picture Credit: Brandon Lennon

Lyme Regis fossil expert Brandon commented:

“Sometimes members of the public are surprised that there are still fossils to be found, after all, fossils have been collected from this part of the Dorset coast for more than two hundred years.  The reason that we keep discovering fossils along this part of the Jurassic coast is because the cliffs are constantly eroding.  Storms and high tides keep revealing fossils”.

Ammonites and their relatives the Goniatites are an extinct group of cephalopods (Molluscs) related to today’s squid and cuttlefish.  Ammonite shells were made of aragonite (a form of calcium carbonate).  They were abundant in the shallow seas of the Mesozoic and diversified into a huge range of different species.  Ammonites are an important group of fossils and help scientists to age rock strata due to their biostratigraphic distribution.

The fossil preparation demonstrations start at 10am and run through to 4pm on Saturday and Sunday (18th and 19th May) and all are welcome to take part in real “hands-on” science.

A spokesperson from Everything Dinosaur stated:

“This is a rare opportunity to pick the brains of local fossil experts in the Lyme Regis area and to learn some of the skills of fossil preparation and fossil identification.”

After a number of recent rock falls, there should be plenty of specimens available, although members of the public are advised to heed the advice of the local authorities when walking close to the cliffs or indeed taking any of the coastal paths.  Many of the cliffs remain unstable and the threat of landslides and rock falls requires visitors to this part of the south coast to take care.

To get the best out of a visit to the Lyme Regis or Charmouth areas Everything Dinosaur recommends taking a guided tour of the beaches with a local fossil expert.

For more information about guided fossil walks: Guided Fossil Walks

School Children Studying Dinosaurs Say Thank You

A few days ago Everything Dinosaur received a parcel from a teacher at a primary school we had visited (Great Wood Primary).  The teacher had asked her pupils to compose a thank you letter and to write about some of things they did during our visit to their school.   The parcel contained a set of thank you notes with lots of amazing and very colourful prehistoric animal drawings.  There were many different designs, although long-necked dinosaurs (Sauropods), proved a particularly popular subject for the front of the card.

Dinosaur Themed Thank You Letters

Drawings of long-necked dinosaurs (Sauropods) proved to be popular.

Picture Credit: James and Olivia

Ellie drew a flying reptile on the front of her card and she enjoyed learning about Tyrannosaurus rex, whilst Amy chose to illustrate her card with lots of pink dinosaurs and liked learning about Triceratops the best.  Jake drew a very scary looking dinosaur on his thank you card, Lucy illustrated her card with a spiky dinosaur, Matthew (Matthewosaurus) was particularly impressed with the skull of the armoured dinosaur that he saw.

Our mailbag was full of lovely dinosaur cards.

Picture Credit: Elliot and Aki

Leah wrote that she “learned that T. rex had very big teeth“, Josh sent in a card covered with big ticks and asked how did the dinosaurs come alive?  A terrific question Josh, we think that all dinosaurs hatched from eggs, perhaps you can think of animals that are alive today that hatch from eggs, can you and your classmates come up with a list?  We loved the big smiling dinosaur on Toby’s card and Spencer wrote a very long letter, recalling lots of facts about dinosaurs that had come up in our work that day.  Our thanks to Dylan for his wonderful dinosaur drawing, the big bones that were in one of the boxes were part of the leg bones from a Stegosaurus, well spotted Dylan!

Spinosaurus and Spinosaurs by Max

Max drew a multi-coloured Spinosaurus.

Picture Credit: Max

Lucy said that she had lots of fun and liked handling the fossils, she even drew some bones on the front of her card, Ruby had a great time as well and she liked learning about teeth. Isobel sent in a lovely picture of a dinosaur with a big smile, must be a very friendly dinosaur.

Our thanks to all the pupils for creating such wonderful cards and to their teacher for taking time out of her busy schedule to send them into us.

Our Iguanodon gives Great Wood Primary a big “thumbs up”.

Iguanodon Gives the School Children a Big “Thumbs Up”!

Praise from a dinosaur!

Picture Credit: Everything Dinosaur

First Trailer for New Dinosaur Movie

Scheduled for a cinematic debut this Christmas, the first trailer has been released for the eagerly awaited new dinosaur film – “Walking with Dinosaurs in 3-D”.  This beautifully crafted film takes viewers to the Late Cretaceous of North America and tells the story of a Pachyrhinosaurus and its fight for survival, it being the runt of the litter and its ultimate triumph against the odds.

The Trailer for “Walking with Dinosaur 3-D”

This film has divided the scientific community somewhat, the computer graphics are excellent and there are some lovely details shown and it will no doubt prove to be very popular with cinema audiences.  However, the anthropomorphising (giving human characteristics to animals) as led to some commentators describing this film as “Bambi meets the Land Before Time”.

Pachyrhinosauruus was a member of the Centrosaurine group of horned dinosaurs.  The presence of fenestrae in the neck frill was a surprise to us, perhaps it is an old injury that never healed properly, and the lack of feathered, shaggy looking dinosaurs in the scenes filmed during the migration could perhaps be challenged, especially as the herd of herbivores are moving into northern latitudes.

Expect lots of Tyrannosaurids, Hadrosaurs and providing the threat to the young Pachyrhinosaurs – plenty of Dromaeosaurids.  Should be a visual treat.

At Everything Dinosaur we are expecting Pachyrhinosaurus to have a surge in popularity as a result of this movie.  There are a number of excellent models available at the moment, a number of interpretations of this seven metre long plant-eater.  For example, both Collecta and Papo have introduced a Pachyrhinosaurus model, part of a great expansion in the number of Ceratopsian dinosaur models available as a number of new genera have been named and described over the last five years or so.

Pachyrhinosaurus Compared – Papo and Collecta Models

Papo and Collecta Pachyrhinosaurs are compared.

Picture Credit: Everything Dinosaur

The picture above shows the Papo Pachyrhinosaurus model on the left compared to the Collecta model on the right.  Both these model makers have chosen to give this dinosaur a solid neck frill although the pair of fenestrae (holes in the bone but covered with skin), can be clearly seen on both replicas.

To view Everything Dinosaur’s model range: Dinosaur Models including Pachyrhinosaurus

Three species of Pachyrhinosaur are currently known, the third species to be named and described was Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum.  The fossils of this dinosaur were discovered in the far north of Alaska (dinosaurs living at high latitudes is explored in the movie), the fossils were found in 2006 and this new species named and described back in 2011.

To read an article on the discovery of P. perotorum:  Discovering a New Species of Pachyrhinosaurus

The film has been estimated to have cost somewhere around $80 million USD (£51 million GBP) to make, the original estimates were around £40 million GBP.  This is still relatively small compared to the budgets of other films, or indeed when compared to the cost of the BBC’s original Walking with Dinosaurs six part television series first aired in 1999, which for the number of minutes of actual footage shown, represents one of the most expensive projects in the BBC’s history.

Earth Day April 22nd 2013

Today, April 22nd is Earth Day, an annual event which raises awareness for the need to be concerned over our environment, climate change and the fragility of our planet.  This day is marked by schools, colleges, environmental groups, lobbyists, governments and other organisations who demonstrate their support for environmental protection.  We share our home with an estimated eight million other species (not including bacteria and other micro-organisms), many of these species are threatened with extinction and it has been stated that our planet is in the midst of another mass extinction event.

There always are extinctions, a background level, however, there is a growing body of evidence to support the theory that extinction rates are accelerating.  Conservative estimates suggest that between five and fifty species are becoming extinct every day.  Put simply, from today until the end of the year, perhaps more than 12,000 species will have become extinct, died out forever.  The rate of loss is very difficult to calculate, however, if we look at just two classes of animals – Aves (birds) and Mammalia (mammals), it has been estimated that today there are about 13,400 living species.  At least one hundred species of birds and mammals have become extinct over the last Century or so.  The rate of extinction seems to be escalating due to pressures placed on the planet by a number of factors such as the rapidly increasing human population, loss of habitat and global climate change.  The extinction rate is many thousands of times faster than the normal background rate attributed to natural selection.

Many biologists and other scientists have speculated that this period in Earth’s history – the Holocene Epoch, could make another mass extinction event – the “Sixth Extinction” to add to the previous “Big Five” – Ordovician, Devonian, Permian, Triassic and Cretaceous.

Everything Dinosaur is doing its bit, we have a programme of school visits this week.  We will be working with hundreds of primary aged school children exploring fossils and extinction events.  Along with the likes of cyanobacteria, our species is one of those “touchstone species” we refer to, as we are able to influence our environment and change the climate.  Events like Earth Day, a worldwide celebration of our planet’s diversity, helps to raise awareness of our pivotal role, one that we can all take part in, to help safeguard the rich and varied life on Earth that we share our home with.

Hyperbole about New Jurassic Park Film has Started – Which Scary Dinosaur?

With a release date for Jurassic Park IV already announced (June 2014) and a director already on board (Colin Trevorrow), it seems that the rumour mill has started in earnest.  With some filming having been completed already and more location work in the swamps of Baton Rouge (Louisiana), under way, it seems the question as to which dinosaurs will actually appear in the new feature film has raised its ugly head.  The CGI teams are keeping their creations under wraps for the moment, but the new film, the fourth in the Jurassic Park franchise; has some way to go to beat the scary dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals featured in the first three movies.

Jurassic Park, released in 1993 had T. rex and the man-sized Velociraptors as the scariest dinosaurs, although a case could be made for the Dilophosaurs and their habit of spitting poison at their victims.  We all know that the movie makers departed somewhat from the known fossil record, but the first film was truly scary in parts, with lots of “jump out of your seat moments”.  In the sequel, “The Lost World” the T. rex and the raptors were prominent once again.  The Tyrannosaur and its baby even made their way to America for the finale of the film.

Which New Scary Dinosaur for Jurassic Park IV?

Candidates for scary movie dinosaur wanted

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

For Jurassic Park III, released in 2001, a new super predator was introduced, a Spinosaurus which promptly attacked and killed a T. rex before causing havoc amongst the human actors.  Although very few fossils of Spinosaurus have been found, those associated with the holotype having been destroyed in World War II, palaeontologists believe that Spinosaurus may have been the largest, terrestrial carnivore that ever lived.  Some scientists estimate that this monster could have been more than seventeen metres in length and weighed more than twenty tonnes.

With possibly the largest land living carnivore known to science featuring in the third movie in the franchise, how will Colin Trevorrow and his team trump the previous Jurassic Park outings?  In an interview given this week, John (Jack) Horner, one of the palaeontologists that has advised the franchise makers, stated that Jurassic Park IV will feature a new dinosaur species one that is more scary than anything else seen in the previous three films.  But which type of dinosaur could the American palaeontologist have been referring to?

Since 2001, there have been a number of new Theropod dinosaur discoveries so there are plenty of candidates.  Could the new “scary” dinosaur be the man-sized Tyrannosaur known as Raptorex, or could the bizarre Late Cretaceous meat-eater with its double-sickle shaped killing claws known as Balaur bondoc be the new star?  With B. bondoc, think Velociraptor but a more robust, heavy-weight version.

The Fossilised Remains of the Left Foot of B. Bandoc

Candidate for scary dinosaur.

Picture Credit: Mick Ellison, Zoltan Csiki, Matyas Vremir, Stephan Brusatte, Mark Norrell, American Museum of Natural History

There are certainly a number of other potential movie monsters in the dinosaur fossil record.  Given the liberties taken by the franchise in the past it is difficult to predict what new horrors they may invent.  One of the longest and most established rumours concerning the making of a fourth film is that there are going to be dinosaur/human hybrids featured.  Drawings of such dino-man creatures were made many years ago and we at Everything Dinosaur have been lucky enough to have seen some of these fearsome creations.

One of the Abandoned Concept Drawings

Dinosaur Human Hybrid

Picture Credit: Total Film

Other potential new stars for this fourth film include the likes of Giganotosaurus and Mapusaurus from South America, ow how about the USA’s own home-grown super predator, the Early Cretaceous Acrocanthosaurus (A. atokensis).  This hump-backed, fearsome carnivore was probably the apex predator in the southern part of the United States in the Early Cretaceous, there is some evidence to suggest it hunted in packs and the movie series has not featured large Theropods hunting in packs, so why not include some footage in the new movie?

Will the USA’s very own Acrocanthosaurus be the New Star?

A new dinosaur film star?

Picture Credit: Everything Dinosaur

We would welcome comments and suggestions, we have not touched upon the Ornithischian dinosaurs or considered prehistoric crocodiles, marine reptiles or indeed the Pterosaurs.  If you were making a dinosaur film and had to include a scary dinosaur which ones would you choose?

New Dinosaur Themed Puzzles – Have You Evolved Enough to Solve Them?

More puzzles have been added to the Everything Dinosaur product range.  After the completion of the  testing programme four travel puzzles/games have been approved and have been posted up on the company’s website.  The puzzles include a magnetic Tyrannosaurus rex jigsaw, plus a dinosaur themed magnetic pyramid puzzle, dinosaur draughts and a magnetic dinosaur themed brain teaser.

The dinosaur draughts (dinosaur checkers), along with the other three items are designed to played on the move, to help keep young palaeontologists occupied on car, boat or plane journeys.  In the dinosaur draughts game, one set of counters has a picture of a Triceratops, these are pitted against the opposing counters that have an image of a T. rex on them.  It seems that this travel game actually reflects real dinosaur conflicts, as palaeontologists are fairly confident that based on substantial fossil evidence, T. rex and the herbivorous Triceratops really did battle it out.

The Dinosaur Checkers (Dinosaur Draughts Game)

T. rex versus Triceratops

Picture Credit: Everything Dinosaur

These travel games are light, pocket-sized and great for keeping budding young palaeontologists occupied on journeys.  They are suitable for children from four years and upwards and all the puzzles except the checkers can be played by an individual.  When these items were on test with our field testers, one of the ways in which the puzzles such as the Pyramid Magnetic Brain Teaser puzzle (picture below) could be adapted for a multi-player format  was to time how long each child took to solve the puzzle.  The winner was the one with the quickest time.  The puzzles are actually quite hard, there are thousands of possibilities but only one solution that lines up all the pictures of the Stegosaurs, Velociraptors and Iguanodons in the correct way.

Dinosaur Themed Pyramid Magnetic Brain Teaser

Tougher than it looks!

Picture Credit: Everything Dinosaur

The team members at Everything Dinosaur are proud of their educational games that they sell.  Each one has to be approved by the teachers/dinosaur experts in the company and of course they have to have an appropriate dinosaur theme.

To celebrate the addition of these new puzzles and games, over the weekend a new banner for the Everything Dinosaur website was created that features some of these new products.

Dinosaur Themed Puzzles and Educational Games

Dinosaur Themed Educational Puzzles and Games.

Picture Credit: Everything Dinosaur

Just click on the banner image to be taken to the educational games section of the Everything Dinosaur website.  We look forward to adding more products over the next few weeks.

Postal Strike and Bank Holidays do not Deter Everything Dinosaur

With the long weekend due to the Easter Bank Holidays and the strike by more than 2,000 postal workers in the UK, there can be delays and other difficulties expected in the country’s mail handling systems for the next few days.  However, team members at Everything Dinosaur are doing all they can to minimise any potential disruption to the delivery of their customer’s parcels.

Following a ballot, members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) have gone on strike at 370 crown Post Offices in the UK, this morning.  The staff are in dispute with management over proposed changes to the branch network, branch closures, pay and conditions.  This industrial action is likely to cause widespread disruption and delays in the processing and handling of parcels and other mail items.  The strike also coincides with two Bank Holidays when no mail deliveries or collections are made, so a back log of unprocessed mail is very likely to build up.   In addition, new pricing tariffs being introduced by Royal Mail on Tuesday April 2nd will potentially cause further difficulties as staff adjust to the new prices and handling of parcels policy.

In response, to these potential problems team members at Everything Dinosaur have volunteered to work throughout the Bank Holiday weekend.  Staff came into the office on Friday (Good Friday) and made sure that any orders placed Thursday evening, Friday and early Saturday morning were packed and despatched and received into the postal network by 10am Saturday 30th April.  This action by Everything Dinosaur team members permitted all parcels to be collected Saturday morning by Royal Mail, it will hopefully help to minimise any delays in delivery.

Staff at Everything Dinosaur will also ensure that any orders placed before 12 noon on the Saturday are packed and despatched and placed in the hands of the Post Office.  Team members are on stand by to drop off parcels in person, this too will help to minimise any delays.  Unfortunately, the industrial action also coincides with it being the last day of the month over the weekend, Post Offices are likely to be busier than usual as motorists come in to get new tax discs.

A spokesperson for Everything Dinosaur commented:

“We are all working very hard at the moment to try to reduce the impact of the industrial action and other issues surrounding the management and distribution of parcels in the UK.  It is likely that delays in the UK would also have an effect on the speed of delivery of parcels to customers overseas, however, our customers can be assured that we are doing all we can to minimise any disruption to deliveries.”

Everything Dinosaur is currently exploring a number of other delivery services and contingency plans have been put in place to ensure that parcels can still be sent out using other couriers, it is our intention to operate alternative parcel handling services and some of these will be in place from Tuesday April 2nd onwards.  However, due to circumstances largely out of Everything Dinosaur’s control, there may be some delays to orders that have been requested to be sent by First Class, Second Class and other Royal Mail delivery services.

Everything Dinosaur – Doing All it Can to Minimise Any Potential Disruption

Committed to helping our customers.

Picture Credit: Everything Dinosaur

Checking on Our Progress So Far

With the first three months of 2013 having whizzed by, we thought it would be appropriate just to re-cap on progress made on some of the social media activities of Everything Dinosaur.  At the beginning of the year, we set out a number of predictions as to what we thought was going to happen over the next twelve months or so.  As well as trying to predict news stories that we would feature and fossil discoveries, our team members set out some targets for themselves to see how things develop in Everything Dinosaur’s social media environs.

Specifically, we set ourselves the following challenges:

• Six hundred and fifty Ezine articles approved and published
• One Thousand Facebook likes on Everything Dinosaur’s Facebook Page
• Ezine Challenge completed 365 articles approved and published since February 25th 2012
• 300,000 Video Views on Everything Dinosaur’s YouTube Channel
• Everything Dinosaur to join Pinterest with 1,000 re-pins

All to be completed by the end of this year, so how are we doing?

• Six hundred and fifty Ezine Articles approved and published

Well, to date we have something like 515 Ezine articles published with another 3 awaiting review prior to publication.  The articles are mainly in the science categories, reporting on developments in palaeontology and new fossil finds.  However, there are lots of product reviews, features on dinosaur models and helpful teaching and craft tips with a dinosaur theme.  So far so good, we are on target.

Examples of Everything Dinosaur’s Ezine activities: Everything Dinosaur on Ezine

• One Thousand Facebook likes on Everything Dinosaur’s Facebook Page

Everything Dinosaur continues to publish lots of pictures, links, illustrations and other material on the company’s Facebook page.   We are always keen to hear from our customers, we respond to every question and reply to messages,  we even publish some of the pictures sent into us by very young dinosaur fans.

If you want to give Everything Dinosaur a “like” to help us towards our target of 1,000 likes by the end of the year just click the Facebook logo:

Click the logo to visit our Facebook page

We are delighted to hear from fellow fossil collectors, teachers and all round dinosaur enthusiasts, we really appreciate your input.

• Ezine Challenge completed 365 articles approved and published since February 25th 2012

It took a lot of hard work but we were able to achieve our target of writing 365 articles in exactly 365 days.  This challenge was set back on February 25th 2012 and we actually had our 365th article published within the challenge period about four weeks before the challenge expired.  So far this year, we have researched, written and had published over eighty articles as we press on towards our target of 650.

• Three Hundred Thousand Video Views on our Youtube Channel

We have put up over fifty videos to date, most of them reviews of new model releases and we are well on track to exceed 300,000 video views in 2013.  In fact, according to some members of our IT team we may well reach the 300K mark in the next six weeks or so.  Perhaps a target of half a million by the year end should be set.  Once again we read every comment, message and response on our Youtube site and we reply to all those that require one.  We love sharing dinosaur and other prehistoric animal information and ideas.

• Everything Dinosaur to join Pinterest and to have 1,000 Picture Pins

We joined Pinterest a couple of months ago, we have really enjoyed seeing and re-pinning all the amazing fossil pictures and dinosaur themed illustrations on Pinterest.  Here too, we have started to pin up more examples from our customers, we are grateful for all the correspondence that we receive we do read them all.  To date, we have pinned up something like 700 pictures and images.  We are well on course to complete 1,000 pins and we will probably be nearer 2,000 pins by the end of the year.  We appreciate all the “shares”, “follows”,”tags” “likes” and so on, we do our best to reply promptly to all who contact us.

To visit our Pinterest pages, simply click on the Pin It logo below:

Click to visit Everything Dinosaur’s Pinterest pages.

So far so good, but we will continue to remain as dedicated to our customers as we always have been and we look forward to hearing from you in the future.  Let’s see how close or how far over the targets the team members at Everything Dinosaur achieve by the end of the year.

Preparations for the Clothing Range – Something to Get your Teeth Into!

Another busy day in the office, with team members sorting out all our dinosaur themed tasks and duties.  On top of the usual workload we have been busy with our new range of dinosaur themed clothing.  The logo has been going backwards and forwards between our team and the production company and this has now been signed off.  The image on the front, based on a real fossilised Tyrannosaurus rex skull, (we have the specimen number somewhere), has also been approved.

It was a real labour of love working on the design for the clothing range, the image of the T. rex skull has something like 20,000 stitches in it – good job there is a machine to sew them onto the sweatshirts that have been chosen.  To begin with there are going to be three or four colours of sweatshirt available red, sky blue and royal blue.  A big thanks to all the people who helped us with the choice of sweatshirt colours and we are still on the look out for a pink sweatshirt as promised.

The T. rex Design for the Sweatshirts is Signed Off

Here’s hoping our new clothing range is a “Roaring Success”!

Picture Credit: Everything Dinosaur

Designed to complement the company’s existing range of dinosaur themed clothing, a spokesperson close to the team responsible for this project at Everything Dinosaur, let slip (during tea-break), that the sweatshirts will be available in a few weeks.

Which Safari Ltd Prehistoric Animal Models Should Everything Dinosaur Make A Video Review?

It has been suggested that team members at Everything Dinosaur make some more video reviews of the prehistoric animal models made by Safari Ltd.  We do make short, (five minutes) video reviews of a number of prehistoric animal models and replicas.  For example, in the Safari Ltd prehistoric animal model ranges we have already made videos for the Deinosuchus, the new Brachiosaurus, Miragaia as well as the Carnotaurus (Carnegie Collectibles).  In the Wild Safari Dinos and Prehistoric Life series we have already reviewed Kaprosuchus, Inostrancevia, Dracorex, Ceratosaurus, Vagaceratops as well as the new T. rex and Acrocanthosaurus models.

Naturally, it is our intention to review the new 2013 releases from Safari Ltd, these will be made in due course, but we have received a request following discussions with Safari Ltd for Everything Dinosaur team members to make some more videos of models.

Which models of prehistoric animals made by Safari Ltd would you like to see reviewed?

We have already received requests to review the scale model of Spinosaurus made by this American company, along with a request to review the American Museum of Natural History Feathered Dinosaurs Toob.  So far we have reviewed a number of the “Toob” products made by Safari Ltd – prehistoric sharks and prehistoric crocodiles as well as the prehistoric sealife Toobs.

The New 2013 Concavenator Model (Carnegie Collectibles)

On the Safari Ltd Calendar.

Picture Credit: Everything Dinosaur

The picture above shows the new Carnegie Collectibles Concavenator dinosaur model made by Safari Ltd.  It features on the Safari Ltd calendar.  Team members at Everything Dinosaur intend to produce a review of this new replica when stocks are available.  Readers have the chance to suggest what models they would like us to produce a video of.

To view Everything Dinosaur’s range of Safari Ltd prehistoric animal models: Dinosaur and other prehistoric animal models