What was the dino inspiration behind your favourite Pokémon?

Lapras' design was based on a plesiosaur

If you are a Pokémon fan you can play the video games, watch them on TV, or trade them as cards - and now you can see them in a museum too.

There are more than 1,000 different Pokémon, all in different shapes, sizes and styles. But do you know what sparked their incredible designs?

For many of them, it is dinosaurs and pterosaurs.

Now an famous exhibition teaching people all about some of the ancient inspiration for the Pokémon is on the move.

The exhibition includes 'fake' skeletons and fossils of different Pokémon, alongside their real-life museum inspirations

The Pokémon Fossil Museum is a learning experience that puts models of some of your favourite characters side-by-side with real extinct lifeforms.

Scientific casts of dinosaurs like the Tyrannosaurus Rex are alongside the Pokémon they inspired - in this case Tyrantrum.

Or Archeops next to the archaeopteryx - the oldest known bird.

Giving people the chance to learn about the history of the real world too.

The mighty Tyrantrum is based on the ferocious T.rex

The exhibition started in the home of Pokémon - Japan - and has been travelling around the country.

Now it's taking a trip outside the country for the first time, to Chicago's Field Museum in the USA.

For those that don't have their own Lapras (like a plesiosaur, btw) to surf them there - there is the option of an online virtual tour of the exhibition too!

What Pokémon would you like to see at the exhibition? Which one do in you think has the best design? Let us know in the comments.