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Dino-Scientists

This activity is free and has curriculum links appropriate for KS2 students.

Become Dino-Scientists for the day using our incredible galleries.

In this self-guided activity, pupils will be given white lab-coats and scientist logbooks as they take up the Dino-Scientist challenge.  This involves using scientific skills to work out the diet, movement and habitat of ancient fossil animals and working out which giant fossil skeletons belong to dinosaurs and which do not.

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Last year nearly 100,000 specimens were loaned to scientific institutions and researchers worldwide.