Baryonyx

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  • Pronunciation: bah–ree–ON–icks
  • Lived: 130–110 million years ago
  • Size: up to 11 metres long
  • Name means: heavy claw
  • Fossils found in: England, west Africa and Spain
  • Diet: carnivore – ate fish and other dinosaurs
  • I was a huge 11 metres in length. That's as long as a bus!
  • My favourite food was fish and meat and I hooked fish from the water with my impressive 32–centimetre–long hand claw.
  • I could gulp the equivalent of 833 fish fingers in a single day.
  • Natural History Museum scientists excavated and named me 20 years ago so I really feel at home here.