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Monday, December 7, 2009

Taiwan exhibits 65 million-year-old dinosaur fossils.

Taipei: Taiwan showed a 65 million years, dinosaur fossils, on Monday (December 7) for an exhibition that aims to raise awareness about global warming.

The exhibition is scheduled for Saturday (Dec. 12) with 250 fossils, such as the claws of dinosaurs and eggs, from eight countries on five continents.

The biggest game of the exhibition, a male Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, was unveiled at the opening ceremony of the exhibition. The complete skeleton is 4 meters high and 12 feet long.

A researcher of Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences of Japan said that the most distinctive features of this set of T-Rex fossils are their large heads and short arms.

Other items in the exhibition include the Allosaurus, pterosaurs, and Hesperosaurus.

"I want people in Taiwan can also understand the process of dinosaur research, conducted in an environment surrounded by dinosaurs, and learn all the knowledge about dinosaurs," said Shigeru Suzuki, a researcher at the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences.

Along with the pre-historic skeletons, three robot dinosaurs also came from Japan, made by Kokoro Company.

The exposure of children said they had no fear of giant monsters that once ruled the earth.

"Dinosaurs on TV are a bit small, a little," said 6-year-old Hsieh Hsiang-han.

But when asked about dinosaurs closely in the exhibition, six years old, simply said: "It's bigger."

The dinosaurs will be displayed throughout the new year celebrations of Christmas and New Year, and will continue until April 5, 2010

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