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Museum fur Naturkunde, Berlin
The dinosaurs were amongst the largest creatures ever to live on Earth. They dominated the land and the sea for three geological periods: the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous, a timespan of hundreds of millions of years. Experience them here in Street View and VR!
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Brachiosaurus
Did you know: there are fewer years between us and the last dinosaurs (65 million years), than the last dinosaurs and the first dinosaurs (approximately 178 million yeas).
Take a look the Brachiosaurus, or Giraffatitan as it's now known, at the Natural History Museum, Berlin.
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American Museum of Natural History, New York
Many people across the ages had found dinosaur bones, but it was only in the 19th Century, with the discoveries of William Buckland, that people began to think that they might be ancient lizards, rather than dragons or giants.
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Anatotitan
Buckland was the first to describe a dinosaur, which he named Megalosaurus. Before long, Iguanodon, was discovered by Mary Ann Mantell, who believed it resembled a modern iguana. This duck-billed Anatotitan was discovered in 1904 in central Montana by Oscar Hunter.
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Naturmuseum Senckenberg, Frankfurt
Discoveries were soon made across the world, and the fashion for all things prehistoric exploded. Dinosaurs play key roles in Jules Verne's 1864 novel Journey to the Center of the Earth, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 book The Lost World, and the iconic 1933 film King Kong.
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Tyrannosaurus Rex
Tyrannosaurus rex may be one of the best-known of all dinosaurs, and while you wouldn't want to be stuck in a room with one, it was by no means the largest. Behind this skeleton at the Naturmuseum Senckenberg is the giant leg of a Supersaurus, truly one of the largest to exist.
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Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum
For decades, scientists couldn't agree on how the dinosaurs were wiped out. Some suggested a massive volcanic eruption, others that they died of an infectious disease, or that mammals simply outcompeted them.
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Saurolophus
It was only in the 1980s, when the Chicxulub impact crater was discovered, that the theory of an asteroid impact became widely accepted. But today we know that not all were killed, some of their descendents live among us, having evolved over millennia into birds.
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The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, London
Ok, these aren't real, and by modern standards they aren't very accurate. But these concrete sculptures were the first dinosaurs many people saw, and they started the craze for these 'terrible lizards'.
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They were made in 1854 for the Crystal Palace in Bromley, London. Since then, they've inhabited a small group of islands in Crystal Palace Park, and while they may look a little shabby today, they're loved by many, and protected as historic monuments.
Print of the Dinosaurs at Crystal Palace, Sydenham, London (1868) by Le BlondGarden Museum
Thanks for joining this journey of discovery. But before you go - what do you call a one-eyed dinosaur?
Do-you-think-he-saw-us?
Cryolophosaurus ellioti (-196000000/-183000000) by Photo: RBINSInstitute of Natural Sciences (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences)
Continue your dino deep-dive and Explore the Mysteries of Dinosaur Evolution with the National Museum of Nature and Science
