Dinosaurs Database

As a small part of the Natural History Museum’s grand Web site the Dino Directory is a fine resource. Its scope is initially to cover well‐known dinosaurs, the main criterion for inclusion being based on whether the Natural History Museum holds a good image or reconstruction so that there must be enough known about the species to reconstruct its probable shape.

While the number of records on this directory is low, only 105, the amount of information contained for each record is substantial. There are four easy ways to search for dinosaurs. The first, alphabetically, is straightforward so long as...