Dinosaur brings interactive fun to children

Dubai: A fully articulated cast skeleton of Dinosaur Sue went on display at the Children's City on Friday.

Engineer Abdullah Rafea, assistant director general of Dubai Municipality for Environment and Public Health Affairs, opened a new exhibition from the United States called a 'T. Rex Named Sue'.

A 'T. Rex Named Sue' brings the story of the largest, most complete, and best preserved T. Rex.

A full-sized cast of Sue's skeleton is the centrepiece of this travelling exhibition, while a family-friendly interactive exploration of the palaeontology that has helped scientists reconstruct Sue's life surrounds it.

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Interactive, touchable replicas, two videos, audible, and colourful graphics deliver content about dinosaur science.

The exhibition has managed to attract more than 5.8 million visitors worldwide.

The centrepiece of a 'T. rex Named Sue' is a fully articulated cast skeleton of Sue standing about 12 feet [nearly 4 metres] and measuring 42 feet [nearly 14 metres] from nose to tail mounted on a stage.

Dramatic lighting throws a spectacular shadow of the skeleton against a graphic backdrop, and a reading rail around the stage engages visitors with touchable casts of Sue's arm bone, tailbone, and rib, interactive activities that let visitors interpret surface features and anomalies of Sue's bones.

Also, interpretive graphics and text relate the stories of Sue's history, from discovery to display, and incorporate actual headlines, news articles, and behind-the-scenes photos taken at The Field Museum.