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.