Video: The Invasion of the Dinosaurs on Oxford Street
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Starting January 28, Londoners have a unique opportunity to observe the life of huge dinosaurs. And not on the screens of cinemas, but right on the street: Oxford Street, famous for its fashionable shops, for a time turned into an open-air exhibition representing creatures that lived on our planet many millions of years ago.
So Oxford Street has become a prehistoric jungle inhabited by 24 dinosaurs. Here you can see the brightest representatives of the entire Mesozoic era, covering the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The time span of this era is simply impressive - it lasted 186 million years.
As if going back many millions of years ago, visitors to the exhibition can admire the huge predator Tyrannosaurus and the harmless vegetarian Triceratops; an incredibly long diplodocus and a stegosaurus - one of the most recognizable dinosaurs thanks to its spines on its back. All exhibits of the exhibition are made in full size. Moreover, each of the dinosaurs is equipped with a special mechanism that allows it to reproduce movements characteristic of representatives of this type of movement. Well, Oxford Street itself, of course, did not remain in its original form: the organizers of the exhibition tried to bring its appearance as close as possible to the natural habitat of prehistoric lizards.
The organizers of the exhibition did not forget about the aquatic inhabitants of the Mesozoic era. For this purpose, a huge aquarium has been created, in which the underwater life of the prehistoric period has been reproduced with the help of the most modern computer technologies.
The Dinosaurs Unleashed exhibition runs from January 28 to April 30, 2010.
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