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The Prehistoric Store, UK, England

News and updates about new products and our website

December 2024

Sadly due to rising costs, our 10% discount on all orders will be expiring 10th December 2024. 

Nov 2024

Its been a busy year here at Prehistoric, some of our new projects have run behind unfortunately due to demand. Our new T rex life sized wall mounts were planned for earlier in the year, but we are pleased to say that after months of creation, this stunning new replica is almost complete and ready for order!

By popular request we will also be including an (optional) neck vertebrae section making this a truly massive and impressive display piece, ideal for professional and home display (If you have a space large enough!)

We will only have these available in very limited numbers as each one will be hand cast and finished in a stunning fossil brown or fossil grey colour.

Pre-order enquiries welcome, please contact John for more info.

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Jurassic Sea dragon!

Some of you may remember a pre-order project we listed last year... the skull is now complete thanks to the three customers who supported this build, and our moulds for this massive 5 foot long Temnodontosaurus skull in matrix are available late Jan. Below is a shot from our workshop of the master reconstruction in chavant clay, which took weeks to sculpt, referencing many Temnodontosaurus skull details. 

Uk Sea monster, Sea Dragon UK giant Icthyosaur replica

 Happy New Year! Our studios are re-opening today (8th January) and will be fully open for projects by 15th Jan. 

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Please note that display bases for our smaller range of claws are temporarily unavailable until further notice! This is down to mould deterioration, and new ones are being made. August 2023.
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New projects being created for customers (which we will have the moulds for and will be available in store) are the new Jumping pose Utahraptor skeleton, Dunkleostus half skull wall display - we can't wait for this one! a complete Spinosaurus arm in matrix, and of course the 'Duelling Dinosaurs' you can see on our store as a pre order. 

 

Jan 2023

We are back at our studio 2nd January, if you have placed orders over the holidays then these are being processed as normal. If you have orders that missed delivery in time for Christmas then these are also our next items to be shipped when we return.  Wishing everyone a happy new year 2023!

 

 

 JUNE 2022

We will have a massive Tyrannosaurus rex fossil replica giveaway on our website, Instagram, and Facebook.

We will have 20 sets of T rex teeth, dentary bone replicas, and many other T rex goodies to be given away each week!

Follow us on our social media to hear about this first!

 

Our online store will be re-opening in June with amazing new additions, and faster shipping times!

Please make sure you have subscribed to our newsletter to receive details about early bird special offers!

 

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 DECEMBER 2021
Please note that December is our busiest time of year, and this year we are still experiencing staff shortages due to Covid. We apologise for delays in answering all emails and messages over the next couple of weeks, if you have an order already placed with us, then these will all be shipped in time for Christmas.
Unfortunately, due to overwhelming demand for our replicas, we cannot accept any more orders untill Jan 2022, effective from 3rd December 2021. 

 

April 2021
Due in store this week 8th April at 8pm are the much awaited brand new Tyrannosaurus rex wall mountable skulls. Our project run behind its original release date due to Covid but we are glad to say that they are almost here, we are just awaiting studio photography of two examples.
Prototype shown here in the workshop below finished in fossil grey, but also available in fossil brown. Complete with fully adjustable jawbone which can be positioned in any gape to suit, from full open to fully closed. The skull itself has been painstakingly recreated referencing many different Tyrannosaur bone examples, from the maxilla, lacrimal, post orbital to dentary and surangular bones to create the most accurate Tyrannosaurus rex skull replica available in its price range. We have designed this so that it can be wall mountable or stand mounted and will have applications as a jaw dropping home display item to display and educational resources.
We will have a limited run of 20 available initially, if one of these is of interest, please drop us a line. Worldwide shipping available.
Prehistoric New Tyrannosaurus rex Half Skull Replica
Ideal for display and education!
Fossil Brown version shown here with mouth in the closed position
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January 2021
Brand new for 2021 in our home museum collection is a stunning 1.3m long wall mountable Triceratops skull, based on T. prorsus  This project is live at our studios now and awaiting moulding to produce a series of limited edition casts of our re-construction. We have received numerous requests for a Triceratops skull so we finally got one made! Our skull is right facing, and will match the new left facing Tyrannosaurus skull we also have in construction to form an impressive duo skull display. 
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January 2021
Covid19 Update. Due to a national lockdown here in the UK, we have faced  challenges in our studio with staff availability. Thankfully our artists are currently homeworking so we aim to keep disruption to our normal services to an absolute minimum, however please be patient with us at this very busy and challenging time.
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October 2020
Please note that our studio for main projects will be closed November 1st - November 30th while we work on a major Dragon project for a UK venue which has now been given the green light for 2021. 
For major project enquiries, please contact us for available dates and availability.
September 2020
Our new full size Spinosaurus skulls are now available for direct order. As part of our commitment to supporting the dinosaur exhibition and venue industry, we can offer substantial discounts on big skull combination displays and supporting design work/custom builds, please contact us for full details.
Fleshed out Tyrannosaurus rex
Mid - late September will see the first of our fleshed out creations, what better species to start with than Tyrannosaurus rex, we are producing a version in stunning natural history detail featuring the most up to date anatomical features known to science and popular theory. Very limited numbers when available, pre-order enquiries welcome. (Pictured below Very early stage concept illustration) we will have these available as lightweight and easily transported half head versions, and by custom request, full busts available. 2nd image, WIP workshop view, scales being experimented with!
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New range of info graphics will be available for all of our claws as an optional extra. Presented in clear acrylic A5 stands, each replica will have it own illustrations and write up. For our bigger items like the T rex skulls and Spinosaurus, we will have museum style A3 format stand displays for professional displays.

 

June 28th 2020
We have two new full skull arrivals at Prehistoric in the coming months, Allosaurus fragilis and Carnotaurus, also available as wall mountable half skulls, full details of their arrivals will be announced in our newsletters. We will have our brand new Spinosaurus collection due in the next week or so, so look out for our latest reconstructions based on the very latest evidence of this enigmatic dinosaur.
Visitors will also be able to shop by species soon, so you can track down your favourite dinosaur fossil replicas faster than ever!
Allosaurus skull
May 30th 2020
Thanks to everyone who has been helping to support our growing business!
We have a lot of new creations coming up , we have introduced a new line of mega cool Dinosaur T shirts for all, please have a look in store for yours, a new juvenile Spinosaurus in matrix, plus many more!
We are working hard behind the scenes as ever and will be upgrading our website next day or so to make your visit to us as easy as possible.
Some of you may remember our project 'When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth' - a fully immersive experience touring the UK, well we have some interesting news on that also, we will be starting off with 'Raptor' - an immersive experience, plenty more to come on this as our pack of state of the art Raptors emerge. Due to social distancing, this is likely to be a 2021 project.
As always, a big thanks for your visit to our site, don't forget to also check us out on Instagram and Facebook for our new regular giveaways plus a chance to win one of our full size T rex skulls in store!
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May 10th 2020
We have been working hard behind the scenes to bring our customers some pretty cool T shirts featuring some of our favourite Dinosaur species! Watch out in store next couple of weeks for these!!!
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Our best selling world famous Tyrannosaurus rex half skull wall mount has been given a make over! Due to popular requests, we have lowered the price of these to make them more accessible, by creating a jaws closed version which means we can now cast these in one part, and therefore easier and cheaper for everyone! It is still the same skull, and we have even enhanced a lot of detail.  These are in now store and in strictly limited numbers!

 

 

Jan 2019, we have a few new additions to our Claws and teeth collection, T rex finger claw (below), Carcharodontosaurus finger claw (huge!) and the new Megalodon tooth. More details in store around end of Jan. 

 

 

December 2018 - Our Tyrannosaurus rex life sized skull is complete and available for direct order via our site. These  have been designed in response to many customer enquires over 2018, and are lightweight yet accurate skulls equally at home as mobile exhibits as they can be set up in a matter of minutes, or as permanent exhibit items. Next in our large skull range is the Spinosaurus aegyptiacus final version, due early 2019. Our Triceratops life sized skull will be following in the first quarter of 2019!

 

19th JULY - Great news - our first commercially available skeleton finally goes in store some time this weekend, we are just waiting on photo's. Utahraptor ostrommaysorum, measuring in at an impressive 10 foot long will be available for worldwide shipping. 

 

 11th JULY - Our new Megalodon Jaw section was cast this afternoon - here's a quick snap of it in initial detail silicone coat. We'll finish off the mould, and should have these in store in a matter of days! These have been designed to be an inexpensive way of owning such a Meg replica - and will be available with and without matrix (pictured bottom of image)

 

13th JUNE - T rex skulls update: here's the new fossil brown versions, upper skull shown from the best seller half skulls we have - will update product listings with new photo's as soon as we can. This is the new mould which are being shipped as of now.