Come face to face with a dinosaur and other skeletons from the past!
Located on Level 2.
![An adult and two children looking into a display case containing a fossilised ichthyosaur.](https://birmingham-museums.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/Venue-Images/Thinktank/Wild-life-and-marine-worlds/Ichthyosaur-family-thinktank-2021.jpg?w=349&h=233&q=100&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.3607&fp-y=0.4147&dm=1699873011&s=5dcae0b0ce003b7e832bf77068a78f15)
In these galleries you will explore the diversity of life on Earth. We've picked out some of our highlights:
![Skull of a Triceratops dinosaur. It is a brown colour and has two horns on top of its head and one above its nose.](https://birmingham-museums.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/Venue-Images/Thinktank/Wild-life-and-marine-worlds/Triceratops.jpg?w=250&h=166&q=100&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1699873014&s=df4b675e350191acf610c4bdfd54eaf6)
Triceratops Skull
Triceratops would have lived in the Late Cretaceous Period 68 to 66 million years ago.
Our real skull of a Triceratops was found in the USA in 1908 and was brought to Birmingham in 1955. Triceratops was a plant eating dinosaur and its name means 'three-horned face'. The skull is a fossil, which means that the bones have now been replaced by rock - a process which takes millions of years.
![An Ichthyosaur skull in glass case with a family looking into it.](https://birmingham-museums.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/Venue-Images/Thinktank/Wild-life-and-marine-worlds/Spooky-Science-Night-2021-ichthyosaur-1.jpg?w=250&h=166&q=100&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1699873011&s=7d701bcbbfb97732fcb7b1253c0aff49)
Ichthyosaur
Discover the Ichthyosaur skeleton, an almost 200-million-year-old giant sea monster from the time of the dinosaurs.
Ichthyosaurs were marine predators that looked a lot like dolphins, but they were reptiles.
Our skeleton was the focus of a two-year conservation and research project which found that it might be a new species.
Find out about the types of creatures that have adapted to life in the sea.
![Skeleton of a giant deer with huge antlers in a display case](https://birmingham-museums.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/Venue-Images/Thinktank/Wild-life-and-marine-worlds/Thinktank-School-Shoot-2020.jpg?w=250&h=166&q=100&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1699873014&s=8131c7de93017edffe611a4d31ded664)
Fossils, skeletons and wild life
See skeletons of other fantastic creatures including a Jurassic Crocodile and a Giant Deer, one of the largest deer ever to live on earth.
Plus see a variety of other animals and wild life that is found on our amazing earth.