Dippy the diplodocus is back at London's Natural History Museum - only she's now called Fern and she's moved to prime position in the museum's revamped gardens.
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00:00So this is Fern, it's a bronze replica of Dippy the Diplodocus who used to grace the
00:17Natural History Museum Central Hall.
00:19The Diplodocus is a big herbivore, this one is 22 metres long and it stands 4 metres at
00:24the hips, so it's one of the biggest animals ever to have walked the earth.
00:30It's really great to have this kind of advert for what we do here at the museum, in the
00:35museum gardens, and not just the dinosaur though, the plants as well, because of course
00:40the museum is about much more than just dinosaurs, it's about the natural world, both in the
00:44past and the present and future.
00:49Visitors will be walking through geological time, starting with the oldest rocks in the
00:53UK, which is over 2.7 billion years old, so that's the beginning of our timelines,
00:58and then the scale of the garden is calibrated, one metre equals 5 million years, so you'll
01:05be walking at that sort of pace, experiencing geological time fast forward.