Dinosaurs

Find out about dinosaurs and what set them apart from other prehistoric reptiles.

Explore the age of the dinosaurs, from the time they first appeared to the mass extinction 66 million years ago.

A short overview of why dinosaurs (except birds) became extinct.

Even though dinosaurs lived millions of years ago, we know about them thanks to fossils. Watch our animation to find out how dinosaur fossils formed.

How well do you know your dinosaurs? Take our quiz to find out.

Take our quiz to find out which dinosaur you're most like - could it be the terrifying T. rex or the placid Plateosaurus?

Dinosaurs are the largest land animals to ever live. Titanosaurs were the biggest of them all. Explore how they were able to grow to such a size.

Get to know some of the largest dinosaurs to have ever walked the planet. 

The discovery was made three decades after the species was first uncovered as scientists try to understand more about how sauropods evolved in what is now eastern Asia.

How we depict extinct animals has changed significantly over time, as artists keep up with the latest scientific discoveries.

They aren't scientifically accurate, but the Crystal Palace dinosaurs have a special place in the history of palaeontology.

Find out how scientists and a palaeoartist created a life-size model of Psittacosaurus featuring real colour patterns, and what this revealed about the dinosaur's life.

These popular dinosaur reconstructions from the 1960s are no longer scientifically accurate. Can you spot the errors?

Find out how palaeoartist Robert Nicholls brought the Museum’s Stegosaurus specimen back to life.