(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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Green Zone

Discover amazing facts about life, the planet, our environment and evolution in the  Green Zone .

Part of the original Natural History Museum building featuring the grand Central Hall, some of our earliest displays such as the historical bird collection and the outstanding collection of minerals housed in original Victorian wooden cabinets.

  • Diplodocus skull in Central Hall.
    Central Hall

    The Museum's grand entrance hall includes the Diplodocus skeleton, a 1,300-year-old giant sequoia tree, Darwin's statue and the coelacanth, a prehistoric fish still living in the Indian Ocean.

  • Treasures gallery
    Treasures

    This spectacular new gallery showcases the most exceptional objects and specimens from the Museum's collections.

  • Head of an ichthyosaur fossil
    Fossil Marine Reptiles

    Learn what was going on in the oceans while the dinosaurs roamed the Earth. See how an ichthyosaur gave birth.

  • Fossils from Britain
    Fossils from Britain

    View ancient creatures like trilobites and ammonites, and marvel at fossilised shark teeth.

  • Creepy Crawlies gallery
    Creepy Crawlies

    Satisfy your curiosity about ants, hawk moths, termites, spiders, hermit crabs and 1000s of their relatives.

  • Ecology gallery
    Ecology

    Explore the connections between all living things and their environments. Find out how you can live more responsibly on the planet.

  • Mauritius dodo
    Birds

    View specimens ranging from a tiny hummingbird to a giant ostrich and meet the now extinct Mauritius dodo.

  • Our Place in Evolution gallery
    Our Place in Evolution

    Meet the predecessors, including Homo erectus, Neanderthals and australopithecines. Who are our closest relatives? You decide...

  • Part of the collection left by Sir Arthur Russell.
    Minerals

    See sparkling gems alongside the raw minerals they come from and learn how minerals are formed.

  • the Vault gallery
    The Vault

    Discover the stories behind some of nature's most rare, unique and valuable treasures in the Museum's Vault gallery.

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Learn about more than 800 creatures and plants, examine spectacular 360° high definition fossil images and watch specially-commissioned videos of Museum experts discussing the latest evolutionary theories.

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