Dinosaurs: Surviving Extinction exhibition at Newcastle Museum
On display until 2 March 2025, the Dinosaurs: Surviving Extinction exhibition at Newcastle Museum (New South Wales, Australia) showcases the latest understanding of dinosaur evolution. Excellent artwork illustrates how palaeontologists think they looked.
Fossils of protoceratops and tarbosaurus show how these dinosaurs developed through their lifecycles. Four protoceratops skulls illustrate how the frill developed from juvenile to adult specimens.
Nests filled with eggs show how protective adults were, also fossil remains demonstrate how dinosaurs cared for their young. This continued into their descendants, the birds, which developed from the ornithopod dinosaurs.
This is an excellent exhibition, very educational with a target audience ranging from children to adults.
Tyrannosaurus Rex at the entrance to the exhibitionUtahraptor eastern Utah USA, early Cretaceous 125 million years agoUtahraptor eastern Utah USA, early Cretaceous 125 million years agoTarbosaurus late Cretaceous 70-75 million years agoJuvenile Tarbosaurus skull late Cretaceous 70-75 million years agoAdult Tarbosaurus skull late Cretaceous 70-75 million years agoConchoraptor on a nest. Gobi Desert Mongolia 76 million years agoPsittacosaurus Flock, Gobi Desert, Mongolia, Late Cretaceous 70-85 million years agoProtoceratops growth series from juvenile to adult Gobi Desert, Mongolia, Late Cretaceous 70-85 million years agoOviraptorOviraptorid nest. Nanxiong Basin Guangdong Province China, Late Cretaceous 76 million years agoSaurolophus skull from the Gobi Desert Mongolia. Late Cretaceous 70 million years agoPsittacosaurus. An adult with 34 juveniles. From Liaoning Province China. Early Cretaceous 123-100 million years agoHadrosaurusProbactrosaurus from Inner Mongolia in the early Cretaceous 100-125 million years agoOrnithopod eggs from the late Cretaceous 70-85 million years agoArchaeopteryx late Jurassic 150 million years ago Solnhofen GermanyArchaeopteryxAnchiornis Late Jurassic 160 million years ago Liaoning Province ChinaConfuciusornis Early Cretaceous 125-120 million years ago Yixian formation China
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