- Where are we?
- [All Together] The
Natural History Museum!
(baby talk)
(laughs)
(drums)
- (gasps) Oh my goodness,
where do I start?
It's massive.
It's got dinosaurs. It's massive!
So Austin, we're gonna explore.
The dinosaurs!
Weigh yourselves against a blue whale.
Experience an earthquake.
(laughs)
And become scientists
in the investigate room.
The museum is divided
into five collections.
You've got botany, plants.
Entomology, insects.
Mineralogy, stones and rocks.
Palaeontology, dinosaurs.
And zoology, animals.
But before we see any
of that, let me take you
into the jaws of the largest creature
ever to have existed on planet Earth.
(gasps)
Here she is.
Meet Hope, the blue whale.
Not that one, this one.
She was found on a lowly sandbank
on the southeast coast of
Ireland beached in 1891.
That's the Victorian times, Austin.
She's 25.2 metres long.
That's 83 feet.
That's as long as three London buses.
But they can grow bigger than that,
around 30 metres, or 100 feet.
That's four tonnes of
whale hanging up there.
They look like hands, they're flippers.
Did you know that there are
221 bones in Hope the whale?
And apparently there were some bones
missing in its right flipper,
so they used 3D printing to fill them in.
Anyway, enough of all that.
I know what you're really here to see.
You're here to see the dinosaurs!
(roars)
Are you gonna be scared?
- No.
- Should we see?
- Yes.
- Are you ready?
What you think?
Are you scared?
No?
Are you scared?
- No.
(laughs)
(roars)
- Go that way!
- You want to go that way?
- Yes.
- (laughs) Okay.
What's that?
Do you know what that is?
- Triceratops.
- Well done, it's a Triceratops!
Look, it's got three horns.
This is a horn.
One, two, three, four, five, like us.
So many films with dinosaurs in.
Look, Eric!
Can you find Mary Anning's Ichthyosaur?
It's here somewhere.
The original one she found.
Yes, wow!
Yes!
At the age of 11, she
discovered the Ichthyosaur.
That's the size of my hand.
This is pretty famous.
Mary Anning discovered the
first Ichthyosaur skeleton,
and this is it.
It's at the Natural
History Museum in London.
She's was an amateur palaeontologist
who became known throughout the world.
So because she was a woman in the 1800s,
she wasn't really recognised
as a palaeontologist.
She didn't receive full credit
for her scientific findings.
So she's a bit of a hero.
Imagine finding all these
and putting these together, Austin.
When you find fossils,
it's like jigsaw puzzles.
You have to put them all together.
She was very clever woman.
- Yeah, really clever woman.
- We salute you, Mary Anning.
How massive is this giant sloth?
If you want a quieter cafe,
go to the Darwin Centre, top tip.
You know me, always bring a book. (laughs)
(playful music)
Wow!
Weigh yourselves against a blue whale!
Can you press this button?
Does it take to weigh
the same as a blue whale.
You're 19 kilogrammes.
- Whoa, 100,000!
(baby talk)
(gasps)
- Oh my goodness, Austin.
That's how many of you weighs
compared to blue whale.
So we're off now, it's a massive museum.
We've done our best blitzing
it in about four hours.
Tonnes of learning to be done.
(laughs)
Did you like the dinosaurs?
(gasps)
They were the best, weren't they?
(smooch)
Were you scared of that T-rex?
- Yes.
- Oh, you were?
- Yes.
- I thought you were
pretty brave, actually.
- Yes.
- So, this museum is one
of the most popular museums
in the school holiday so get here early.
And top tip, enter the side entrance
where there's lifts if you've got a pram.
Okay, bye.
- Bye.
- Bye.
- Say bye.
- Bye.
- Two Foot Explorers!
(baby talk)
T-rex.
