Iguanadon Footprint Andy's Dinosaur Adventures

# I'm Andy and I work here at the National Museum

# There's dinosaurs of all sizes You should see them!

# Hatty's a collector of things from long ago

# Come and see the dinosaurs Ready, steady, go!

-# One, two, three, four!

-Come on Andy's dinosaur adventure

# Hey, join the crew!

# Looking at the dinosaurs Collecting something, too

# Yeah, you can come, too!

# The old museum clock takes me back in time

# To when dinosaurs ruled the world

# "Take me to the time of the dinosaurs," I say

# Hold on tight, shut your eyes And then we fly away!

-# One, two, three, four!

-Come on Andy's dinosaur adventure

# Hey, join the crew!

# Looking at the dinosaurs Collecting something, too

# Yeah, you can come, too!

# Andy's dinosaur adventure

# Dinosaur, dinosaur adventure! #

Hey, Hatty.

Hatty?

-Hatty?

-Oh, hello, Andy.

Oh, you've got those rocks I asked for - great.

Could you put one here...and one over there, please?

What do you think?

-What is it?

-An iguanodon.

This was all that was left of him.

-Why, what happened to the rest of him?

-Who knows?

Perhaps his other bones were washed away in a flood,

or maybe some other animals took them for food.

An awful lot can happen in 127 million years, you know.

Well, it is a long time ago.

Hey, Hatty, what's this?

An iguanodon's actual footprint.

It's only got three toes.

Which shows this footprint came from one of its back feet,

-because its front feet had five toes.

-Pretty big.

It certainly is, and this one's not even from an adult.

-Oh, no, let me.

-Oh, no, it's all right.

I remember when I found this footprint.

I was hunting for fossils in the mountains of Utah.

There. All done.

SHE GASPS I'd better get going!

The museum opens soon and I've got lots to do.

Would you mind tidying up before the children arrive?

Don't worry, leave it to me. I'll tidy everything.

-Thanks, Andy. I knew I could count on you.

-Always!

I wonder how big my foot is in comparison?

Ahh, Hatty won't mind.

Gently.

Look at the size difference!

Right, better put it back in case anything goes wrong.

Oh!

HE SNEEZES

Ohh!

Erm, it's OK, I can just stick them back together with glue.

CLOCK CHIMES

SQUAWK! SQUAWK! SQUAWK!

Even better!

Time to go on a dinosaur adventure!

Right, waistcoat...

gizmo, hat.

And, last but not least, Hatty's backpack.

To the time of iguanodon!

WHOOSHING AND WHIRRING

I've travelled back in time 127 million years

to the time of iguanodon!

Right, I need to find myself an iguanodon

and make a plastercast of its footprint.

SOFT PURRING

That sounds promising!

LOUDER PURRS

Huh? Did you hear that?

Come on, let's take a look.

Oh, yes! This is exactly the dinosaur I wanted to see!

A huge iguanodon,

just like the one in Hatty's display back at the museum.

I'm going to get closer.

Look at that! They can go up onto their two legs when they need to.

Right, let's take a look at their footprints now.

One, two...three toes!

Just like the footprint that Hatty had! Perfect.

Now, all I need to do is to get some plaster to make a copy of it.

Huh? Hang on a minute, what's going on?

Whoa, why's the ground shaking?

HE GASPS

Oh-ho-ho, look! A whole herd of iguanodons!

Come on, let's go join them!

This is incredible! There must be about 100 of them!

Where are they all going?

Ah, it says here that they're heading south for the winter

to keep warm and find fresh food.

Of course, walking on the beach is so much easier

than clomping through the forest.

It's a polacanthus,

covered in armour just like a big tank!

This is amazing!

I've never seen so many dinosaurs before.

Ah, that was close! These iguanodon are surprisingly fast on two legs.

You're going the wrong way! You're supposed to be going south!

I don't know, poor things.

They may have been big, but they obviously only had tiny brains.

That's better! Right, now, let's go and find some good footprints.

This sand is just right!

It's really wet, so it really holds the shape of the print.

Excuse me, friend!

Thank you.

Too big.

Too small.

That one's a polacanthus.

Five toes, not three, which means that's a front leg.

Yes! This footprint is perfect!

OK, now, first of all,

Hatty's quick-drying plaster powder...

some water, and I'm going to need a stick, too.

Ah, this will do.

If I draw around it, so I've got the right size...

There we go.

Now I just pour the water into the plaster powder.

WIND BLOWS

That wind's really picking up.

That should do it. Then I pour it in...

Oh, make sure it's all filled up.

And wait for it to...

Huh? It's dried already!

It really is quick-drying!

Look at this!

Hatty's not going to know the difference. Pop that in the bag.

There we go, I did it!

This wind is getting really strong now.

-CLOCK CHIMES

-The clock!

I've got enough time to get to the clock

and get back to the museum before it opens.

SQUELCHING

I'm stuck in the soft sand!

What am I going to do now?!

Hatty's backpack -

it's always full of the most useful things.

A picnic blanket? What am I going to do with that?

It's not as if I'll have tea and cakes with the dinosaurs.

How am I going to use a picnic blanket...in this windy weather?

Whoa!

Yeah! Ha-ha!

See you later, iguanodons! Woo-hoo!

Woo-hoo-hoo! Whoa-hoa!

Coming in to land!

Time to head back.

Whoa!

CLOCK CHIMES

CLOCK CHIMES

Right, hurry along now.

Don't want to turn into dinosaurs ourselves, do we?

This is the footprint of an iguanodon,

a vegetarian dinosaur that could stand on two legs if it wanted.

(And they could run pretty fast, too.)

It was also one of the very first dinosaurs to ever be found and named.

Thanks, Andy.

You must have been working really hard to finish off in here.

And that footprint looks even better than I remembered!

See you next time. Ssh!

-# One, two, three, four!

-Andy's dinosaur adventures

# Dinosaur, dinosaur adventures! #