Dinosaurs

The Museum's dinosaurs are world-famous. Meet the roaring T. rex, see the skull of a Triceratops and wander among fossils in the Dinosaurs gallery.

Explore the different time periods dinosaurs lived, sort the facts from the myths about why they died out and find out what our scientific research has taught us about these prehistoric giants.

Star specimens and exhibits include:

• part of the first Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever discovered, one of the largest carnivores ever to have walked the Earth
• the first skeleton of Iguanodon known to science, one of the species used to describe the concept of dinosaurs
• the skull of a plant-eating Triceratops
• the gigantic armoured dinosaur Scolosaurus