Sunday, October 14, 2007

Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum is such a beautiful building it is almost worth it just to see what it looks like. The first thing you see when you walk in the door is a BIG dinosaur skeleton, I think that the dinosaurs is a favourite for the kids. Most of my pics did not come out properly because it was just too dark and my flash does not have a big enough range. I still managed to include a pic of dino teeth - I put a 1 pound coin next to it to give an idea of size, head shot of a skeleton and an impression of the most adorable little baby dinos.




The big question about the dinosaurs has always been, "How did the dinosaurs become extinct?" I have included a couple of illustrated possibilties. While I was there I read that the T-REx would probably kill himself if he tripped while running. This made me think, and my personal opinion is that all the T-rex's died from tripping - then the herbivores got overpopulated, ran out of food and died - leaving the remaining carnivores to kill each other off. It's a stretch but I think it is more plausible then the ones to follow.


After the dino's I headed to seek the origin of the homosapien. I was amazed to read how many similarities we have with chimps and gorillas. To summarise we are all just a bunch of monkeys, and this explains the stupid behaviour of humans everywhere - for some its more regular than others.



One of my favourite sights was seeing the trunk section from a giant sequoia, this specific tree was over 1300 years old before it was felled. Really awesome, to imagine a tree with a trunk that size - WOW!!




As I was leaving the whole Darwin Theory area I saw these cool moldings in fron of the windows made out of a type of mesh wire. Looked pretty cool.

I then headed off the the bugs and earth floors. The bugs were ok but all the earth stuff was my favourite. I regret leaving it till last cos I was tired so I don't think I enjoyed it as much as I could of. It was still really cool. Unfortunately it was generally too dark for pics but I did take one of good ol' Atlas with the world on his shoulders. I even got a chance to experience a simulated earthquake. Pretty cool.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cool museum

Byron

Kath said...

Hey Babe

Just love hearing what you have been up to. Always so entertaining!

Have to ask. Who is Alan???

Lots of love

If you feel like popping over to Ireland let me know. We would be happy to have you over!