Dinosaurs & Fossils

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Giant robotic dinosaurs gear up for Age of the Dinosaurs blockbuster at the Ulster Museum

A 3.5-metre-high robotic dinosaur is just one of seven animatronic Jurassic creatures awaiting visitors to the Ulster Museum's Age of the Dinosaurs exhibition.

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Belfast's Ulster Museum celebrates an enduring fascination with Age of the Dinosaur

Riggers have had to put their skills to good use at the Ulster Museum, where dinosaurs flying from the walls join highlights from the host collection and the Natural History Museum.

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The Culture24/7: Science and Nature sparklers for May 2012

Shark teeth, dinosaurs, nanoparticle experiments and forestry fun all feature in our round-up of places to explore and inspire in all things Science and Nature this month.

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Jurassic Coast Earth Festival gets set to launch with fusion of science and art events

Between May and September visitors will be able to take part in a celebration of England's only natural world heritage site, exploring the past, present and future of the 95-mile coastline.

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Dinos to dominate Ulster Museum in special Age of the Dinosaur Museums at Night preview

The Age of the Dinosaur, the massive new show at the Ulster Museum in Belfast, will enjoy a special late night opening alongside the permanent collections this weekend.

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130 million-year-old Iguanodon dinosaur bone found in Sunderland back garden

Experts from the Natural History Museum have been poring over a mysterious Sussex dinosaur bone which has been given to the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens.

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300-million-year-old fossil fish resident returns to Bude Castle Heritage Centre

The Castle Heritage Centre in Bude is to welcome back the Cornish town's oldest resident - a 300-million-year-old fossil fish with razor sharp teeth.

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Archaeopteryx - missing link between birds and dinosaurs comes to National Museum Cardiff

A rare fossil that provides much debate among palaeontologists as to the link between dinosaurs and birds is to go on show at National Museum Cardiff.

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Sir David Attenborough launches Dinosaur Gallery at Leicester's New Walk Museum

The broadcaster launches a gallery which includes ancient fossils from the Charnwood Forest which has starred in his BBC shows, enormous dinosaurs and meteorites.

Liopleurodon attack, a scene featured in the Dinosaur Gallery, New Walk Museum & Art Gallery

Dino podcasts released as New Walk Museum prepares to launch new Dinosaur Gallery

Nine films focusing on the stars of the museum's new Dinosaur Gallery are being released daily in the run up to its opening on September 3.

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The Culture24/7: Science and Nature Picks for September 2011

Lunar rainbows, signed biscuits from the South Pole, pop-up 1980s hospitals and Dorset beaches transported to the heart of London in our round-up for September.

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Augmented Reality at the Natural History Museum's Attenborough Studio

How augmented reality is bringing extinct creatures alive at the Natural History Museum's Attenborough Studio.

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The Culture 24/7: Science and Nature picks for July

Dinosaurs, Arctic explorers, Lego, the life and death of stars and the heroics of Yuri Gagarin in our guide to some of this month's science and nature highlights.

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Natural History Museum at Tring brings out composite dodo skeletons and peregrine egg

The Secret World of Museum Science demonstrates the methods and madness in a show to inspire future scientists.

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John Shevlin's The Future Took us becomes first UCL show at Grant Museum of Zoology

Artist John Shevlin combines fossilisation with limestone lithographic printing in a new show at the Grant Museum.

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