(Claw of Baryonyx walkeri) Baryonyx means 'heavy claw'. Unusually for a carnivorous dinosaur we know it ate fish as scientists have found fish scales and teeth with its fossil where its stomach would have been.

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Highlights

At a glance, the bits no visitor wants to miss.

  • Dinosaur Gallery.
    Dinosaurs - 11/11/2008

    Come face to face with a terrifying T. rex. Inspect dinosaur skeletons. Sort the facts from the myths about why dinosaurs died out.

  • Blue whale.
    Mammals (blue whale)

    Discover a world of massive mammals. Inspect a blue whale, the largest creature ever, from above and below.

  • Under the volcano model.
    The Power Within

    Find out what happens – above and below the ground – when a volcano erupts or when an earthquake takes place.

  • Diplodocus skull in Central Hall.
    Central Hall

    See the highlights of the Museum, including the Diplodocus skeleton, a 1,300-year-old giant sequoia tree, and the coelacanth, a prehistoric fish still living in the Indian Ocean.

  • Gold nugget
    Earth's Treasury

    Get a rare glimpse of some truly precious treasures in this glittering display of rocks, minerals and gemstones.

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Cartoon image of a stegasaurus disappearing through closing door

The first collected specimen of Theobroma cacao, the plant from which chocolate is made, is kept in the Museum.