Biology:Ground Shakers To Feathered Flyers

Ground Shakers To Feathered Flyers was a dinosaur exhibition hosted in Wollaton Hall, near Nottingham. The exhibition included thirty varieties of Chinese dinosaurs and ran from Saturday 1 July to Sunday 29 October 2017. The exhibition, a world-exclusive event, claimed to include specimens from all other China, as well as the world-famous fake dinosaur Archaeoraptor.

Exhibits and theme

The exhibition was largely based around the Mamenchisaurus, which was placed centrally in the hall, and claimed in-exhibit to be the tallest ever exhibited dinosaur replica in Britain. Other notable exhibits were a number of fossilised proto-birds and reverse birds such as the Yanornis, and a number of feathered lizards like Microraptor and Gigantoraptor. The theme of the exhibit was the links between dinosaurs and birds and how one evolved into the other, around which the exhibit's children's trail was centred. The contents of the exhibit's info boards were condensed into a book sold at the hall's gift shop. A lot of input was

Extension

The exhibition had a small section in a Nottingham museum about how dinosaurs were drawn through the ages, showing how the illustrations changed with discoveries. It included some answers to the children's trail and a skeleton of the dinosaur Dilophosaurus. A lot of mentions were made to the Jurassic Park film series.