Meet Tyrannosaurs Rex and the family at the latest Witte Museum exhibit

Meet Tyrannosaurs Rex and the family at the latest Witte Museum exhibit


SAN ANTONIO – The Witte Museum is lately that includes a summer season blockbuster dinosaur exhibition, with the latest addition that includes one in every of the maximum feared predators of all-time.

“We are the first in Texas to deliver it right here,” stated Beth Stricker, the leader inventive officer at the Witte Museum.

Visitors can get a detailed come upon with “Scotty”, one in every of the international’s maximum whole T. Rex skeletons found out in Canada. The exhibit titled, “Tyrannosaurs: Meet the Family” is positioned in the Mays Family Center of the museum.

According to Stricker, the exhibit was once created by way of the Australian Museum, and it is stuffed with uncommon fossil specimens that come with improbable fashions of feathered dinosaurs. “We’ve got skeletons representing species from China, other parts of North America, Canada,” Stricker stated.

The exhibition grants guests a view of the quite a lot of participants of the Tyrannosaur family, together with Dilong, which will become six ft lengthy. “Dilong here, this specimen is really important for scientists because it is one of the first Tyrannosaur specimens to show evidence of feathers. So were dinosaurs feathered, or not? Dilong holds those first clues,” Stricker stated.

Further, guests might have interaction in interactive video games and discover fossils of alternative towering dinosaurs present in Texas. Stricker added, “We’ve added our personal gallery to the exhibition. Late cretaceous fossils in Texas are uncommon, however we were given our fingers on some, and we’re sharing them with everyone.”

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