Visit to the Manchester Museum
Museums are among my favourite places. Never do they fail to instil a sense of wonder and belittlement in me... especially the sections on pre-historic life and cosmology. I spent the day at the Manchester Museum yesterday, ogling and gawking at all those things on display.
I adored the dinosaur on display - a Tyrannosaurus rex named Stan. It is a cast replica from the original and consists of 199 bones that have been discovered. Standing at about 20ft tall and 35ft long, the thing is just gigantic. I only come up to its knees! I was introduced to dinosaurs when I was very young via a book on dinosaurs. It came with special glasses for viewing the special 3D renditions of dinosaurs, including a T Rex. Yet, none of the books, pictures or even movies prepare one for the massively awe-inspiring sight of a real-life fossil reconstruction of the beast!
Anyway, here are some snaps from the museum visit.
Gautama Buddha
Egyptian mummies
Mummified remains of Asru, a chantress at the Temple of Amun in Karnak.
A fossilized ammonite - Ammonites are an extinct group of marine animals that lived 400 - 65 million years ago.
Fossil evidence of fern-like plant (from around 600 million years ago)
Australopithecus Afarensis (3.9 - 2.9 million years ago) - The hominid ancestor that gave rise to modern Homo species including humans!
Early homo sapiens (400,000 - 10,000 years ago)
Guess what this is? It has hands, no legs, a huge tail and a great big head.
Fossil remains of a dinosaur-like sea creature (205 - 146 million years ago)
Sea scorpians and jawless fish from the Silurian age (439 - 409 million years ago)
A reptile from the Triassic period (250 million years ago)
Stan, the Tyrannosaurus Rex (dated to 65 million years ago)
More of Stan...
A few of the beetles on display - With about 350,000 different species of beetles around, they are dubbed nature's favourite!
Enjoy.
I adored the dinosaur on display - a Tyrannosaurus rex named Stan. It is a cast replica from the original and consists of 199 bones that have been discovered. Standing at about 20ft tall and 35ft long, the thing is just gigantic. I only come up to its knees! I was introduced to dinosaurs when I was very young via a book on dinosaurs. It came with special glasses for viewing the special 3D renditions of dinosaurs, including a T Rex. Yet, none of the books, pictures or even movies prepare one for the massively awe-inspiring sight of a real-life fossil reconstruction of the beast!
Anyway, here are some snaps from the museum visit.
Gautama Buddha
Egyptian mummies
Mummified remains of Asru, a chantress at the Temple of Amun in Karnak.
A fossilized ammonite - Ammonites are an extinct group of marine animals that lived 400 - 65 million years ago.
Fossil evidence of fern-like plant (from around 600 million years ago)
Australopithecus Afarensis (3.9 - 2.9 million years ago) - The hominid ancestor that gave rise to modern Homo species including humans!
Early homo sapiens (400,000 - 10,000 years ago)
Guess what this is? It has hands, no legs, a huge tail and a great big head.
Fossil remains of a dinosaur-like sea creature (205 - 146 million years ago)
Sea scorpians and jawless fish from the Silurian age (439 - 409 million years ago)
A reptile from the Triassic period (250 million years ago)
Stan, the Tyrannosaurus Rex (dated to 65 million years ago)
More of Stan...
A few of the beetles on display - With about 350,000 different species of beetles around, they are dubbed nature's favourite!
Enjoy.
