Click here for Press Release on Prehistoric Animal Life Gallery
 
Shri
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Director, Chhatrapati
Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya,
Mumbai inaugurated the hall of “Prehistoric Life” on 27th May 2011
  
Glimpses of the gallery
- Ornithominus, Ankylosaurus,
Pterosaur
- Corythosaurus, Apatosaurus,
Wooly Rhinoceros
- Stagosaurus, Brachiosaurus,
Glyptodon
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What are the Prehistoric Animals ? Prehistoric animals are all
organisms that walked—or swam, crawled, slithered, or flew—on Earth more than
5,500 years ago, before humans started recording history. They include huge dinosaurs that
measured 24 meters long and flying reptiles with 11 meter wingspread. Other fantastic
animals were toothed birds with claws on their wings; fish covered with bony armor etc.
The earliest known remains date to the Cambrian era, about 600 million years ago, although
simple-celled organisms have been around much longer. Crustaceans, flying reptiles, woolly
mammoths, and saber-toothed tigers are just a few others of the hundreds of millions of
prehistoric animals that once lived on Earth.
The completely renovated hall of Prehistoric
Life at Nehru Science Centre describes the evolution of early forms of life, the first
animals – one-celled organism in sea, invertebrates like trilobites, vertebrates like
fishes, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, primates, early man etc in a chronological order.
There are about 30 prehistoric animals on display and majority of them have been provided
with animation and locomotion. Imagine you are in front of a huge dinosaur and it moves
its neck towards you as if it wanted to talk to you or a dragonfly attempting to fly by
flapping its wings or megatherium turning its neck at you as you go near it. Also on
display are land scorpion, lemur, megaloceros, woolly mammoth and rhinoceros, musk ox,
diatryma, glyptodon, smilodon and many models of dinosaurs ready to interact with you as
you approach them.
Pterosaur model -The new addition - Giant flying leviathans that ruled the skies
about 150 million years ago. It casts an impressive shadow over all the other prehistoric
animals on display - in action mode, ready to strike from the air.
The exhibition on Prehistoric Life will enthuse and educate the visitors’
mind on the fascinating chronological events of evolution. Supplementing the exhibition is
a hands-on interactive computer kiosk that will help the inquisitive mind to explore in
finer details of the fascinating story of evolution. In addition to these there are
informative panels on evolution of various species and universe.
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