"Titans of the Past" debuts at the Singapore Science Centre
A dinosaur skull on display at the exhibition. (Photo: Singapore Science Centre website)
Two travelling dinosaur exhibitions -- revealing life-size dinosaur skeletons -- will make their Singapore debut on Friday at the Singapore Science Centre.
The highlight of the exhibition, titled "Titans of the Past - Dinosaurs and Ice Age Mammals", is the largest T-rex skull ever discovered by scientists and the first to ever leave the US.
Life-size skeleton casts of dinosaurs like the whopping 36-metre Argentinosaurus -- the heaviest and largest land animal ever to walk the earth -- should also be looked out for.
Museum of the Rockies’ curator of paleontology, Dr Jack Horner, said: "Most dinosaur exhibitions… don’t really have a theme, there’s just a lot of stuff.
“This has a theme that's very different from what anyone's seen because it's brand new science -- it shows that dinosaurs are more like birds and mammals than people have ever thought."
Animatronic dinosaurs flown from Japan will also make an appearance.
A range of land animals from the Ice Age are highlighted in an adjacent exhibition at the Science Centre.
There will also be hands-on workshops on dinosaur forensics for those who have always wondered what it is like to be a paleontologist.
The exhibition also features the latest knowledge in science about how dinosaurs lived and their behaviour, including the latest hypothesis of world-renowned paleontologist Dr Jack Horner and his research team.
They discovered that more than one-third of all dinosaur species classified from the Cretaceous Period may actually be juveniles, not different species as believed for the past century.
The exhibitions will end in February 2014.
~News courtesy of Channel Newsasia~
A dinosaur skull on display at the exhibition. (Photo: Singapore Science Centre website)
Two travelling dinosaur exhibitions -- revealing life-size dinosaur skeletons -- will make their Singapore debut on Friday at the Singapore Science Centre.
The highlight of the exhibition, titled "Titans of the Past - Dinosaurs and Ice Age Mammals", is the largest T-rex skull ever discovered by scientists and the first to ever leave the US.
Life-size skeleton casts of dinosaurs like the whopping 36-metre Argentinosaurus -- the heaviest and largest land animal ever to walk the earth -- should also be looked out for.
Museum of the Rockies’ curator of paleontology, Dr Jack Horner, said: "Most dinosaur exhibitions… don’t really have a theme, there’s just a lot of stuff.
“This has a theme that's very different from what anyone's seen because it's brand new science -- it shows that dinosaurs are more like birds and mammals than people have ever thought."
Animatronic dinosaurs flown from Japan will also make an appearance.
A range of land animals from the Ice Age are highlighted in an adjacent exhibition at the Science Centre.
There will also be hands-on workshops on dinosaur forensics for those who have always wondered what it is like to be a paleontologist.
The exhibition also features the latest knowledge in science about how dinosaurs lived and their behaviour, including the latest hypothesis of world-renowned paleontologist Dr Jack Horner and his research team.
They discovered that more than one-third of all dinosaur species classified from the Cretaceous Period may actually be juveniles, not different species as believed for the past century.
The exhibitions will end in February 2014.
~News courtesy of Channel Newsasia~
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