Manchester Museum Celebrates the 100th Birthday of the Millions of Years Old T-Rex!
The Manchester Museum
On Saturday 19th February, Manchester Museum celebrated the 100th birthday of the discovery of the predatory dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus Rex. It was the American scientist Henry Fairfield Osborn who discovered the remains of a dinosaur in Hell Creek, Montana, and gave these prehistoric creatures their infamous name.
Manchester Museum has its own resident dinosaur skeleton replica, Stan. Stan is named after his excavator Stan Sacrison who discovered the dinosaur remains in South Dakota (USA) in 1987. The skeleton is the second most complete T-Rex skeleton found in the world! Stan is surrounded by displays of real dino-fossils and he delights in towering above his prey, including you!
Why not get you teeth into this colossal skeleton and see Stan??s 30 centimetre long gnashers?
The Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
Tel: 0161 275 2634
Submitted by: Shelley Deasey, 02 March 2005
