For a long time, Archaeopteryx was considered to be the ancestor of birds, but now it is believed that these reptiles died out without leaving descendants. Was it flying, floating or simply running – is still unknown. The presence of the wings and plumage allowed scientists to assign it to the class of birds, as for all the other features Archaeopteryx differs from reptiles a little. Nearby there is a skeleton of Archaeopteryx, whose name is translated as “ancient bird”. There was heavy bone mace at the end of the strong tail, swinging of which helped the lizard to defend against predators. Its body was covered with strong armor studded with spikes. There is a skull of a loricate dinosaur – Ankylosaurus in the right part of the showcase.
This is one of the first dinosaurs described by scientists. Pay attention to the skull of Iguanodon, whose name is translated as “iguana tooth” because of the similarity of its teeth with the teeth of modern lizards. The length of this dinosaur reached twenty-seven meters its height amounted to the height of a two-story house and it weighed twenty tons. Huge meter skull was equipped with dagger-like teeth.Īt the bottom of the showcase you can see a vertebra of a huge herbivorous lizard – Diplodocus. The height of an adult dinosaur reached five meters, its length – fifteen meters. Look at the skeleton of a baby Tarbosaurus – one of the largest land predators that ever lived on Earth.
The most famous pangolins of the Mesozoic were the dinosaurs, whose name is translated as “terrible lizards”.
Mesozoic era is called the time of reptiles rule. Several very important events took place during this period, groups of plants and animals, now dominant in the world appeared exactly at this time: mammals appeared in the Triassic, birds in the Jurassic, and the first flowering plants in the Cretaceous. Fossils of animals and plants typical for era of medium life are exhibited in the showcase.
Mesozoic Era is divided into three periods: Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. The era of medium life – the Mesozoic, lasted one hundred and eighty million years.
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