The Flying Saucer At Sunset

Lenticular clouds (Altocumulus lenticularis) are stationary lens-shaped clouds with a smooth layered appearance that form in the troposphere, usually above mountain ranges. One was spotted in Singapore recently...

Eyes Of 30,000 Honeycombs

With 30,000 individual facets, dragonflies have the most number of facets among insects. Each facet, or ommatidia, creates its own image, and the dragonfly brain has eight pairs of descending visual neurons to compile those thousands of images into one picture...

A Kaleidoscope Of Colours, Shapes And Patterns

Spectacular and innovative in design, the Flower Dome replicates the cool-dry climate of Mediterranean regions like South Africa, California and parts of Spain and Italy. Home to a collection of plants from deserts all over the world, it showcases the adaptations of plants to arid environments...

Lightning Strikes, Not Once, But Many Times

Unlike light, lightning does not travel in a straight line. Instead, it has many branches. These other branches flashed at the same time as the main strike. The branches are actually the step leaders that were connected to the leader that made it to its target...

Are You My Dinner Tonight?

A T-Rex has 24-26 teeth on its upper jaw and 24 more on its lower jaw. Juveniles have small, sharp blade-shaped teeth to cut flesh, whereas adults have huge, blunt, rounded teeth for crushing bones. Is the T-Rex a bone-crushing scavenger?

Titans of the Past - The Growth and Behaviour of Dinosaurs

"Titans of the Past - Dinosaurs & Ice Age Mammals"
Science Centre Singapore
Jurong East
West, Singapore
October 2013

In the segment on "The Growth and Behaviour of Dinosaurs", the tracking of the development and growth of Triceratops, Pachycephalosaurus, Hypacrosaurus and T-Rex and the quality specimens found test the hypothesis of world-renowned palaeontologist Jack Horner and his research team who discovered that more than one-third of all dinosaur species classified from the Cretaceous Period may actually be juveniles and not different species as determined by palaeontologists for the past century. This exhibition is also the first attempt in the world to explore the concept of ontogeny - the development of an animal through its life and its implications for the science of palaeontology.

Juvenile and mature "dragons" from the past -
the Pachycephalosaurus with its distinctive skull dome...

Hypacrosaurus Stebingeri was a crested duck-billed dinosaur. These dinosaurs from the late Cretaceous Period cared for their young until they were old enough to leave the nest...

“The exhibition tells the story of a dinosaur’s life using real fossils and specimens that have played a pivotal role to facilitate our continuous efforts to demystify the prehistoric age and uncover new findings."
~ Dr Jack Horner, the MOR’s Curator of Palaeontology 
and technical advisor for the Jurassic Park movies ~

Argentinosaurus, the largest Sauropod ever found measuring 36 metres in length and 7 metres in height...


Giganotosaurus is one of the largest terrestrial carnivores in the late Cretaceous period.
This skeleton here is 12m in length and 4m in height...


  

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Titans of the Past - Ice Age, The Exhibition

"Titans of the Past - Dinosaurs & Ice Age Mammals"
Science Centre Singapore
Jurong East
West, Singapore
October 2013
 
Ice Age, The Exhibition presents 10 animatronics animals from the Ice Age in scenes depicting their habitats, with didactic panels describing the physical characteristics, diets and environments of these animals. Visitors will see and learn about the various components that made up the earth’s surface and atmosphere and how the animals lived during that period.

Ice Age mammals’ exhibits from Aurea Exhibitions are being showcased for the first time in Asia...



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Titans of the Past - Dinosaurs & Ice Age Mammals

Science Centre Singapore
Jurong East
West, Singapore
October 2013

Science Centre Singapore (SCS) unveiled Titans of the Past - Dinosaurs & Ice Age Mammals exhibition at the Science Centre Singapore on 25 October 2013. The 3,000 square metres exhibition features two international travelling dinosaur exhibitions, “The Growth and Behaviour of Dinosaurs”, which has been co-produced by the Museum of the Rockies (MOR), USA Montana and Kokoro Co., Ltd. Japan, and “Ice Age, The Exhibition” from Aurea Exhibitions, Argentina. These will transport visitors to the prehistoric era of the dinosaurs and ice age mammals.

Be transported back to the prehistoric era of the dinosaurs and ice age mammals...

 

Stand next to life-sized dinosaur fossils...
 

State-of-the-art animatronics...

Titans of the Past – Dinosaurs and Ice Age Mammals is complemented by a suite of comprehensive educational programmes such as animated demonstration shows within the exhibition, talks and lectures by palaeontologists and hands-on workshops on dinosaur forensics.

Fun activities for families and visitors...

Friendly and dexterous Science Centre staff and interns spend hours learning how to fold complex origami dinosaurs just to give visitors an adorable take-home dinosaur...

Amazing 3D photos with a prehistoric background at an introductory price of $15...

The four-month long exhibition is held from 25 October2013 to 23 February 2014. Admission charges (inclusive of Science Centre entry) are $25 for Adults and $19 for Children. More information can be found at www.science.edu.sg.

"The fascination surrounding the existence of dinosaurs continues to grow
as many questions remain unanswered."
~ A/Prof Lim Tit Meng, Chief Executive, Science Centre Singapore ~




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