Sneak peek into World’s Top Dinosaur Museums
Jurassic World, a 2015 American science fiction adventure film, last week hit over 4,200 theaters, reintroducing man-meets-dinosaur disaster to new generation fans.
In real life, scientists still have to revive the terrible lizards from mosquito DNA. But recently they have discovered remnants of what look like red blood cells and soft tissue in the fossils of a 75 million-year-old dinosaur.
There are several museums in real life that bring humans face to face with dinosaurs for example:
• Museum für Naturkunde (Berlin): This history museum houses a serious collection of bones excavated largely from Tanzania in the 20th century. It's a Guinness World Record holder and dominates the first gallery.
• Field Museum (Chicago): The museum's Evolving Planet exhibit, dedicated to the last 4 billion years of evolution, features dinosaurs from as far away as Madagascar and Antarctica.
• Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Science (Brussels): It has the largest dinosaur hall in the world, this museum also has an impressive collection of fossilized skeletons and casts.
• National Dinosaur Museum (Canberra, Australia): It is a place where one can explore prehistory in Australia. This place has the country's largest collection of dinosaur fossils.
• Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology (Alberta, Canada): Over 130,000 fossils call this paleontological research center home, including the original ‘Black Beauty’ Tyrannosaurus skeleton with its unique dark sheen.
• Wyoming Dinosaur Center (Wyoming): The museum has acquired the most complete archaeopteryx in the world (after the one in Berlin) and boasts skeletons of Triceratops, Stegosaurus and Velociraptor, among others in all sorts of dynamic poses.