WE’RE talking the Really Big Boys of Jurassic Park.

Creatures like the mighty Stegosaurus, or the huge, long-necked but peaceful Brachiosaurus.

These gigantic dinosaurs roamed the Earth some 150 million years ago.

And now a Huddersfield youngster has rekindled interest in all things Jurassic with a visit to Tolson Museum.

When seven-year-old Ben Clarke, of Fenay Bridge, visited the Museum’s exhibition Cabinets of Curiosities, he was particularly fascinated by a display of fossils.

But the display, put together by the Huddersfield Geology Group, paled into insignificance when Ben brought in some of his own collection.

Ben was inspired to show museum staff some of his own fossil treasures and returned with samples from his large collection gathered on family holidays.

And the stunning centrepiece was a huge dinosaur egg, as big as a tenpin bowling ball.

Staff at the museum in Ravensknowle Road are used to people bringing in for identification items they've found locally.

They have identified family treasures and mystery objects but had seen few as old as the specimen brought in by Ben.

Isobel Holland, who works at the museum, said: “The egg, almost too heavy for Ben to lift, was found by fishermen off the Dorset coast.

“Normally these kinds of finds go straight to the Natural History Museum in London, but this egg is cracked and so joined Ben’s collection.

“We believe it is possibly from the Jurassic age, which makes it 150million years old”.

The dinosaurs didn’t just live in the Jurassic period; they spanned a period of almost 200 million years.

The first dinosaurs appeared in the Triassic period almost 220 million years ago, developing through the Jurassic period 150 million years ago and into the Cretaceous period 127 million years ago.

They finally became extinct in the late Cretaceous period approximately 65 million years ago.

The Tolson display that caught the eye of young fossil-hunter Ben will be on show as part of the Renaissance Yorkshire-funded exhibition until Saturday October 31.

Four other local groups – Bridge the Gap (a group of older people who work closely with pupils from Almondbury High School); Birkby and Fartown Reading and Craft Group; Home Educated Children; and the Mala Chandar Kurd group of Kurdish families and individuals – also filled cabinets with collections and objects of special meaning to them.

A sixth cabinet is full of objects from the Kirklees collection, not normally found on display, and was the inspiration for the groups to display their treasures and communicate something about themselves.

The Museum is planning further Cabinets of Curiosities events at October half-term.