SCIENTIST Phil Manning gave his Yorkshire Museum colleague Norma Clemit a bit of a scare with this giant dinosaur foot, as he prepared for a family lecture on dinosaurs.

Mr Manning, the York museum's keeper of geology, is to give a 60-minute lecture tomorrow when he will look at bones and talk about what dinosaurs were really like.

Today's TV audiences, familiar with the giant beasts through computer-generated images in programmes like Walking With Dinosaurs, should find plenty to think about in Mr Manning's talk, which is aimed at people aged six and upwards.

It takes place tomorrow at 2pm in the Tempest Anderson Hall in the Museum Gardens. Admission is free.

Updated: 11:44 Friday, December 28, 2001