Next we headed across the road to the National Dinosaur Museum. From the outside it looked as if it was just aimed at kids as the forecourt was full of life-sized dinosaur models and you even walked through a huge toothy T-Rex mouth to enter. Inside, though, it was very well laid out with display cases full of fossils tracing the eras from the oldest, 4700 million years ago, to the emergence of man, 2.5 million years ago. They particularly pointed out the Australian fossils and showed how they compared to more well known ones. Each display was well labelled and had some really interesting and surprising information presented in a simple, friendly and accessible way, whatever your age. We spent ages reading the placards and Barry faced off against a Parasaurolophus Walker, from the Cretaceous
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