Gilbert - Dinosaurs & Other Stuff

 

At the Triceratops exhibit there was also this replica skull with a sort of magnifier.

If you turned the magnifier the shadow behind the skull changed!

It showed how the skull of a Triceratops changed when growing up into an adult Triceratops.

Baby Triceratopses hatching.

One last glance at the herd.

Next we visited a room that was set up like a cabinet of curiosities.

It had lots of taxidermy.

The hive of bees or wasps, I think.

This was the 'horny wall'.

There was a room about animals in the ice age.

In the middle of the room there was a diorama with all kinds of animals that lived during the ice age.

The skeleton of a cave bear!

It was really cool, but we were getting a bit hungry, as we hadn't eaten since breakfast. So we went in search of food.

Next: food and other stuff

Gilbert - Lots of Dinosaurs (part 2)

 

We already saw lots of dinosaurs at Naturalis, but then we came to one of their coolest exhibits:

A T-Rex!

This T-Rex is named Trix.

It's because it's a female T-Rex, and as T-Rexes are the kings of the dinosaurs this female T-Rex is named after the former queen of the Netherlands: Beatrix. And Trix is also close to T-Rex of course.

Isn't she cool!

Trix was in lots of fights and even had an infection near her nose, and you can see some of the damage that has done on the fossil. Still sge probably reached an impressive age for a T-Rex, judging by the size of her.

Next we went to another really cool dino exhibit about Triceratopses..

This animated Triceratops was at the entry to the exhibit.

And a Triceratops kid.

A Triceratops herd!

This herd was found all together at the same place. They probably got caught in a flood and ended up buried beneath clay and sand.

There were fun moving decorations placed around the herd.

And there was this cool construction where you could look at Triceratops bones and try to find where the Triceratops got hurt.

I had to try of course

Steering the light to a place I think is a wound.

And...

I found a spot where the Triceratops was bit by a T-Rex!

It was both fun and interesting.

Next: yes, more Triceratopses. 

Gilbert - Lots of Dinosaurs (part 1)

 

Last week we went on a trip!

My owner had an appointment in Leiden, but we went a day early because she didn't want to travel for six hours in one day!

We took 4 trains to get to Leiden, and after 3 hours we arrived. It was early in the afternoon, so lots of time to do something fun! 

We went to Naturalis.

Naturalis is a Natural History museum.

I spotted a really cute statue of a sleeping dinosaur beast.

There were T-Rexes at the giftshop!

And Dodos!

But we hadn't come just for the giftshop, so time to actually go into the museum.

We tried to visit an exhibit about life in general, but there was a class of high school students running around there, shouting and screaming, so we decided to skip this exhibit and go straight to the awesome stuff.

Dinosaurs!

There was a large exhibit with dinosaur fossils.

Just look at this big guy!

Stegosaur

There were texts and pictures to tell you more about the dinosaurs.

This told you how the Stegosaur probably used its spikes and plates. 

Some kind of Fishosaur

I was amazed by how big most dinosaurs were.

This is a Mosasaur.

The first Mosasaur fossils were discovered in a limestone quarry at Maastricht in the Netherlands in 1764 near the river Maas. It's called after that river. Isn't that cool?!

I wouldn't want to swim near these guys.

This is an attempt at recreating a dinosaur as it might have looked.

It looked very realistic in my opinion.

Next: More Dinosaurs of course!