Sunday, 16 August 2015

Inside Singapore's impressive new natural history museumDesigned by Singaporean architect Mok Wei Wei, the new Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum cost $35 million to build. Seven-stories high and resembling a giant moss-covered rock, it houses over one million specimens.Say hello to Prince, Apollonia and Twinky, the gigantic stars of the Natural History Museum. The largest, Prince, was shipped to Singapore in 27 huge, customized crates. It took more than a fortnight to assemble him.The museum's main biodiversity gallery consists of 15 zones tracking the history of life on earth, including plants, molluscs, reptiles, mammals and fish. All the big questions are answered such as why birds are surviving dinosaurs and how terrestrial vertebrates evolved from fish. Visitors can compare skeletons or marvel at the beauty of the elegant spiral tusk of the "unicorn of the sea" -- the narwhal. The tropical rainforest zone is where visitors can learn about how and why animals -- including squirrels, lizards and snakes -- have adapted to move effortlessly from treetop to treetop.Singapore's Natural History Museum mammal zone has many creatures on display including orangutans, a wild boar and a human skeleton.Dozens of butterflies and moths that flutter around this tropical corner of Asia, including the gargantuan Atlas Moth, are on display at the museum.

Singapore (CNN) Prince, Apollonia and Twinky roamed our planet 150 million years ago.

Nowadays, the skeletons of these three long-necked diplodocus dinosaurs are the star attraction of Singapore's new Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum.
Everyone knows that dinosaurs were big, but these three almost complete sauropod fossils are a reminder of just how enormous these lizards were.
Discovered at a Wyoming quarry in the United States in the last decade, "Prince" is 25 meters long from tip to toe. The largest of the trio, he arrived in 27 huge customized crates that were shipped from Utah.
Apollonia is three meters shorter and Twinky -- a mere baby -- is 11 meters long, rearing up on its hind legs as though munching on something delicious in a tree.

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