RE: DINOJAWS

[Steve White <steve_d_white@hotmail.com>]

Hi,

For those interested, i just got back from a press preview of the Dino-Jaws 
exhibition opening at the Natural History Museum in London tomorrow so 
thought I'd pass on a few comments.

Some very nice dinamtronic models - moving busts of T-rex, Brachiosaurs and 
Edmontosaurus when you first go in, then in the main hall, Iguanodon, 
Baryonyx, Euplocephalus, three Veolciraptors eating a dismembered 
Protoceratops, a Coelophysis and an Oviraptor. Thought the Baryonyx looked 
pretty good if a little chubby but the nice touch was the inclusion of a 
Lepidotes that swims away from said Barry. The Raptors were feathered (one 
of my non-dinosaurian colleagues said, "I didn't know they had fur.") but 
looked a little short in the hing leg - still, a got effort. The Oviraptor 
was also feathered and I thought the best model there.

This is strictly for kids - the information is spartan and generalised, but 
there are some nice interactive touches and I think Children will really 
enjoy it.

Again, my one real bone of contention and something i dispair of with the 
NHM is the garbage sold in the museum shop. I remember the joy I felt when I 
first visited the AMNH and seeing the excellent quality of merchandise 
available (best still has to be Monterey Bay Aquarium). The only good thing 
I found was a book on the Tasmanian Devil. * Sigh *

Steve