About two-thirds of the space in the Museum is devoted to the display of fossils, from tiny brachiopods (a dozen of which would fit in the palm of your hand) to the 33-foot skeleton of a duck-billed dinosaur (you could fit comfortably in its rib cage).

Choose a fossil group:
Vertebrates	Invertebrates	Plants

Display space is split almost half and half between vertebrates and invertebrates; the fossil plants display occupies only a small area.

Technically, a fourth group of fossils known as trace fossils exists. These are snuggled in the invertebrates displays as they are most often formed by these types of creatures.

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