How to View Baryonyx in 3D
Baryonyx 3D Viewer runs an Early Cretaceous Baryonyx - the crocodile-snouted, fish-eating theropod named for its enormous curved thumb claw - in your browser. Drag to rotate, scroll or pinch to zoom, toggle a 1.8 m person for scale, and click a body part for a fossil-sourced fact.
Open the Baryonyx page and take the camera
Open the Baryonyx 3D Viewer and wait for the facts panel to fill. When the status line says you can drag, orbit the Baryonyx with the pointer and zoom with the scroll wheel or a two-finger pinch. Fullscreen expands the wrapper so the controls stay visible beside the scene.
Use the four Baryonyx controls under the canvas
Under the Baryonyx canvas, four controls handle view and scale:
- Fullscreen - fills the display while keeping the buttons visible
- Stop rotation / Auto-rotate - freezes or resumes auto-spin
- Idle motion - adds subtle breathing and leg sway; tap again for Stand still
- Size vs human - shows a 1.8 m person at the honest length ratio used by the viewer (7.5 m from the 2010 body-mass revision, within the wider published about 7.5-10 m historical range)
Read the Baryonyx facts panel and click a body part
The Baryonyx facts panel lists length about 7.5 m on the 2010 Cuff & Rayfield body-mass revision (earlier 1986-1997 descriptions ran up to about 9.5-10 m), hip height commonly put around 2 to 2.5 m across sources, weight about 1.2 tonnes / 1200 kg in that 2010 study (older estimates about 1.7-2.7 tonnes), an enormous curved thumb claw about 31 cm long - the feature that gave the genus its Greek name barys + onyx, "heavy claw" - a long, low, crocodile-like snout with conical, unserrated teeth suited to gripping slippery prey, the Early Cretaceous window about 130 to 125 million years ago (Barremian) in what is now England, and naming history - the type specimen was found in 1983 by amateur fossil collector William J. Walker in a clay pit near Surrey, excavated by a Natural History Museum-led team that recovered about 70 percent of the skeleton including the skull (on display at the Natural History Museum, London), and formally named by Alan Charig and Angela Milner in 1986. Direct fossil diet evidence is unusual for a large theropod: fish scales (Scheenstia mantelli) and a juvenile Iguanodon bone were found in the holotype's stomach region - a distinct evidence line from the already-shipped Spinosaurus, whose fish diet is inferred mainly from snout shape and isotope studies. The procedural model uses the shared theropod archetype with no back sail (feats empty), so the body reads differently from Spinosaurus even though both share conical teeth. A short click - not a drag - on head, body, neck, tail, leg, or arm surfaces a short fossil fact; the thumb claw's record length is disclosed in the facts panel and prose, not as a separate click target, and the arm mesh uses the same small generic claw geometry as other shipped theropods. Skin color is an artistic reconstruction; the model is procedural with no free-licensed Baryonyx glTF re-hosted yet.
What the Baryonyx how-to guide is not
The Baryonyx how-to guide is a controls walkthrough for the in-browser viewer only - it does not place the model in your room (no AR), does not claim soft-tissue or color accuracy, does not invent one precise length or weight beyond the disclosed 2010 figures and the wider historical range, does not claim Baryonyx was fully aquatic or spent most of its time in water, does not invent a dedicated click-the-claw interaction, does not invent a glTF credit, and does not invent game score or win states. For the size story see Baryonyx size comparison. For trade-offs versus phone AR apps see Baryonyx 3D viewer vs AR apps.
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