The Prehistory Gallery presents ‘Reptiles in Space and Time’, a journey through the evolution of life on earth to the Age of Reptiles when the ancestors of today’s snakes, lizards, turtles, tortoises and Tuatara were the supreme vertebrates of the Mesozoic era. Today’s 6000 surviving species are but a small proportion of those which have come before and left their traces in the fossil record.

Many fossils and fossil replicas are on exhibit illustrating the diversity of reptiles that once roamed the Earth.