Camels waiting to take visitors on a sand dune trek, to see a sun set over the Thar desert, and a wandering goat.

These two elephants have worked out that if they pull the ropes at the same time they will get a reward.

A site seen in Rajasthan, Northern India, on the edge of the Thar Desert.

During a day out walking in the Kent countryside, we came across  Eagle Heights Wildlife Park. Within a moment, I found myself watching a display of eagles, storks and a cheetah against the backdrop of wheat fields and villages.

After the visit, which involved looking at many eagles, owls, snakes, lizards and porcupines, we walked across the fields in the evening sun to find the train station. The howls and barks of the pack of Arctic huskies rose up in the air behind us.

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Industrial forms spotted whilst searching for fossils on the Jurassic coast in Dorset, similar in shape to the fossilized ancient sea creatures that were were hunting for.

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Posted as we are all fascinated by the ‘giants’.

Oscar nominated film by John Feeny 1963
Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak

A few years before the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species, a group of life size dinosaur models was commissioned by the Crystal Palace Company. They were to go on display in the pleasure park near the glassy Crystal Palace Exhibition hall. The sculptor, Hawkins, worked with paleontologist, Richard Owen, to visualise the dinosaurs and they based their ideas on fossil evidence at hand. The replicas stood on small islands or lay in the rising and falling tidal lagoons of the park.

However, within a few years the dinosaurs were discredited by the scientific community as inaccurate. A horn placed on the nose of the Iguanadon was proven false with a new discovery. The fossil bone it was based on turned out to be that of a thumb. The replicas were left untended and obscured by foliage until the 1950s when interest in them was revived, they were restored and repositioned.

These life-size dinosaur replicas are still impressive. Though they are inaccurate, they still provoke an emotional response in onlookers, perhaps because they give a sense of the bulk and presence of the creatures.