(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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Earth Lab

  • on the mezzanine level of the Red Zone

  • there is currently no step-free access to Earth Lab

Interested in geology? You'll really enjoy exploring our Earth Lab. The gallery area is packed with fascinating fossils, minerals and rocks. It's a chance to dig deep into the exciting and varied world of British geology.

Compare your specimens with more than 2,000 in the Earth Lab gallery. Explore our user-friendly computer database either in the lab or online, see the Earth Lab datasite.

Lab area

Open to pre-booked groups.

In the lab area, you can examine the specimens of your choice using our microscopes and put your science questions to our helpful and informed staff.

You can try one of our earth science investigations,  or take a closer look at your own rocks, minerals and fossils.

For more information or to book a session, please 

email Margarita Petri

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Cartoon image of a hatchet fish on a museum pass

Until 1938 whale carcasses were buried in the Museum grounds so that their flesh would decay leaving only the skeletons.