Walking With Dinosaurs at the O2 Arena

Pick on someone your own size! A Tyrannosaurus rex takes centre stage at the launch of the live show at the O2 Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

Don’t worry – his breath is worse than his bite. Probably. Three schoolchildren come face to face with the moving lifesize Tyrannosaurus rex, while baby T-rex looks on Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images

“Roar! I forgot to set the Sky+ to record Jurassic Park!” The animatronic T-rex, made from latex and steel and operated by three controllers, lets rip Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

Dentistry doesn’t come much tougher than this. Young Jack Osbourne – no, not that one – inspects the robotic Tyrannosaurus rex. Seconds later, his mouth snapped shut. No, of course it didn’t Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

Ahh, ain’t motherly love wonderful? Even in the world of animatronic computer controlled dinosaurs Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

Not the new pet Amy Winehouse has bought to stop the press bothering her, but the main attraction of the show, unveiled today Photograph: Nils Jorgensen / Rex Features/Nils Jorgensen/Rex Features

Don’t look now, but there’s a bleedin’ great dinosaur behind you. Young Charlotte Bailey bears the full force of the T-rex roar Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images

“And then suddenly we realised that the banks hadn’t been regulated anything like robustly enough and that was the beginning of the end, really.” A T-rex remembers the real reason the dinosaurs went extinct Photograph: Ian West/PA