”Giant Mysterious Dinosaurs was like stepping back into prehistoric times. The exhibition provided the sights, vibrant colors and atmosphere of the day. The impressive and rare skeletons and animatronics particularly enthralled our younger visitors, while educating them on some of the less common but truly giant dinosaurs of the day.”
Troy Collins
Senior Vice President; Marketing, Programs and Business Development
The Franklin Institute
Enter the realm of strange and unfamiliar real-life monsters, replete with the sights, sounds, and smells of the Age of the Dinosaurs. Mysterious Giant Dinosaurs presents the world's largest touring collection of giant dinosaurs and reveals new discoveries of how these stupendous creatures evolved and grew.
Featured titans up to 70 feet long and 24 feet tall include the world's largest meat-eating dinosaur and the longest-necked of all plant-eaters. Among the rare and strange creatures are an Argentine giant with its bizarre long double spines, the unicorn-spiked duckbill from China, and the exotic and little-known Asian ancestors of horned, duckbilled and plate-backed behemoths.
Against backdrops of giant original murals, robotic and fossil behemoths stand beside the new evidence revealing how many eggs they laid, how fast they grew, how much they ate, and many more details of the lives of creatures ten times the size of any animals ever to walk the Earth.
RESEARCH THEMES
- How Do We Know Dinosaurs Were Hot-Blooded?
- How Fast Did Dinosaurs Grow?
- How Much Did Dinosaurs Eat?
- What Were the Evolutionary Origins of Giant Dinosaurs?
- What Are the Limits of Animal Size?
Advisors on this exhibition are Dr. Martin Sander from the University of Bonn, upon whose new research the exhibition is based, and Dr. Ted Daeschler from the Academy of Natural Sciences.
INTERACTIVES: Videos, an excavation site, fossil-touching and drawing activities are among the many interactives available to hosting venues.