We went to London. It was the first time I went to London. This is me waiting outside the Natural History Museum. It was a really, really rainy day. Mummy got really wet. We had to wait over half an hour.
This is a picture of Dippy, the diplodocus. He is in the middle of the museum and he is super, super, super, super big!
This is an ichthyosaur head that Joseph found. Joseph is Mary Anning's brother, and Joseph is a bit older than Mary Anning. The museum had lots of fossils of ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs that Mary Anning found, but the picture of me, two pictures down, is with a pliosaur. It was so big that Mummy had to tilt the camera to take a picture!
This a megatherium. It was alive after the dinosaurs. While the dinosaurs were alive, mammals were as big as a mouse, but after the dinosaurs died, they grew bigger and bigger, and the megatherium was one of the biggest - it was much, much bigger than a bear!
They have lots of fossils in the museum. In this room, it was all full of fossils. They were found all over Great Britain. There was a computer that was stuck to a microscope, and you could look at fossils up close. There was another computer, and you could look up where they found the fossils.
This is an archaeopteryx. Scientists are arguing whether archaeopteryx was a dinosaur or an early bird - I think it is a dinosaur. This is what it would have looked like when it was alive.
I'm not telling you anything about this T Rex - you have to find out how scary it is when you go to London to the museum!
The picture below is a parasaurolophus fossilised skull. He could make a noise with his big horn, it sounded a bit like the fog horn of a big ship. If you go to the Dinosaurierpark in Germany, you could hear what it sounded like, or you can have a look here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBU6zfI1b0U . It's a film to show how the horn worked, although it's really called a crest. But I didn't make that film.
The picture below is a parasaurolophus fossilised skull. He could make a noise with his big horn, it sounded a bit like the fog horn of a big ship. If you go to the Dinosaurierpark in Germany, you could hear what it sounded like, or you can have a look here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBU6zfI1b0U . It's a film to show how the horn worked, although it's really called a crest. But I didn't make that film.
My best piece was when I saw the T Rex, even though it was scary. And I also liked the megatherium, and seeing all the fossils that Mary Anning found. One day, we're going to go back. It was so fun at the museum, I nearly cried when I got out, but that cry was a happy cry, I didn't want to leave!
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