London: Day 3 and a trip to the Natural History Museum to start the day with. This dinasour greets you upon entrance.

Dinasours line the halls of this section of the museum. Dinasours equal huge in everything.

This guy was described as some sort of Polar Bear kind of Sloth. Whatever he resembled, he was huge.

A cat walk let you weave in and out of these bohemouth creatures.

A T-Rex in all of his restored glory.

A try at using legs like a T-Rex, a little harder than it looks.

Do I even need to explain this look?

An additional exhibit had animals displayed from the inside out. You were able to see all their insides, muscles, skeletal structure, and everything else preserved and displayed in varying cross-sections.

Can you guess what this is? 225 million years ago, in the Arizona Desert, a tree was growing. If conditions are right, plant tissue is replace by minerals and the tree turns into stone. Thinner rings show dry and cold conditions at the time the tree was growing. We went all the way to London to see what is in our backyard.

The stump as a whole.

Probably my favorite extinct animal or bird. Anyone named Dodo would look sad and disconcerted like that. Poor guy, don't they know how much is in a name?

 

 

A cross-section of a giant redwood. And giant it is.

 

 

Time to go home, get dry, and change clothes for the afternoon.