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Hong Kong gets real-life taste of Jurassic Park with new exhibition featuring dinosaur remains and complete woolly mammoth skeleton

  • Massive woolly mammoth skeleton is star attraction in permanent gallery devoted to prehistoric creatures
  • ‘Extinction, Resilience’ exhibition will also feature a robot Tyrannosaurus rex designed to interact with visitors

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The skeleton of a flesh-eating Deinonychus, one of only three discovered, at a preview of the “Extinction, Resilience” exhibition at the new palaeontology gallery at the Hong Kong Science Museum. Photo: May Tse
Ezra Cheung
Some of the world’s most complete dinosaur remains will go on permanent display in Hong Kong from Friday.
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Members of the public will be able to view rare exhibits, including the entire skeleton of a giant woolly mammoth, and learn more about the origins of life on earth at the Hong Kong Science Museum’s newest gallery.

The palaeontology exhibition, called “Extinction, Resilience”, will also feature the world’s most complete remains of a Deinonychus, a bigger relative of the fearsome flesh-eating velociraptors made famous in the Jurassic Park film series.

Only three skeletons of the Deinonychus have been discovered, with the other two on show in the United States.

A three-metre tall skeleton of a massive woolly mammoth goes on display at the Science Museum. Photo: May Tse
A three-metre tall skeleton of a massive woolly mammoth goes on display at the Science Museum. Photo: May Tse

One is in the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the other at the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

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