Zoo allows skull selfies with the fossilised woolly rhino
Zoo allows skull selfies with the fossilised woolly rhino
Chloe Hughes, West Midlands-based BBC News
This weekend is the first-ever fossil festival at the Exotic Zoo in Telford, featuring a woolly rhino skull.
The zoo's natural history museum, which opened in 2023, will host the event. It will include new prehistoric artefacts and guest lecturers.
The full-size fossilised woolly rhino head and the skeleton of a small herbivorous dinosaur called Jeholosaurus are among the new exhibits.
"It's a huge skull," remarked Scott Adams, the director of the zoo.
Visitors will be taken on a tour of Earth's history, starting from its formation and ending in the present.
"As people make their way around the museum, they can follow the timeline and see exactly what animals were around at each time, how they’ve evolved, how they’ve gone extinct," said Adams.
Mr. Adams will be watching over the fossilised woolly rhino skull as it is taken out of the cabinet so that people may get up close and personal with it and snap pictures.
Mr. Adams will be watching over the fossilised woolly rhino skull as it is taken out of the cabinet so that people may get up close and personal with it and snap pictures.
The museum took ten years to establish because Mr. Adams insisted on using actual fossils rather than moulds.
"When young people were coming and looking at a dinosaur, I wanted them to look and know that that skeleton had been really inside a dinosaur 120 million years ago," he stated on BBC Radio Shropshire
Source bbc.com
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