Chinese Museum paleozoology
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Paleozoology Chinese Museum in Beijing and can accommodate more than 100 000 different specimens and exhibits on the history of botany, anthropology and paleontology. Some exhibits are quite common, which can be seen in every museum of this kind, some - a very rare, but there are those that can only be seen in this museum.

The museum has a room with prehistoric animals, which presents skeletons of dinosaurs and their footprints, bones, eggs. Yangchuanosaurus, carnivorous animals that lived in the late Jurassic period - very large. Their length from tail to head was approximately 8 meters and the height they are approximately 4 meters. Hadrosaurs - large herbivores, lived at a later time, in the Cretaceous period. Their growth was about 5 meters, and the length of the body - about 7 meters.

The collection of prehistoric animals, imported from abroad, there is an ancient bird moa (New Zealand), sloth (Australia), fish-Dim (Africa). Some of the exhibits are presented in the form of stuffed animals. Also in the museum are the remains of ancient species that have been found in different parts of China and abroad. All species that are presented in this section of the museum, played an important role during the evolution of ancient animals. To date, they have an extremely important scientific significance.

The museum is divided into 4 sections: Department of Zoology, Division of Paleontology, Department of Anthropology and the Department of Botany. In all rooms, there are the most modern projection equipment, as well as video.

In the hall of paleontology is represented by 22-meter prehistoric species mamenchisaurus representative, who lived about 140 million. Years ago. Also in this room contains the flying reptiles, the pterosaurs and ichthyosaur - that is, all those animals that became extinct at the same time as the dinosaurs.

In the halls of zoology and botany are models showing the evolution of life on Earth by period in a systematic way. Visitors can clearly see all the stages of life and the emergence of a wide variety of species that have occurred over millions of years. Guests of the museum informed that many plants and animals that have done such a great way of development, is now endangered and that the environment - one of the important tasks of man on earth.

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