Dinosaur Exhibit, Auckland Museum - Auckland, New Zealand - Dinosaur Statues on Waymarking.com

Auckland Museum protects and cares for approximately 1.5 million natural science specimens in collections that have been built over 150 years. This includes an array of upright dinosaur skeletons.


The exhibit explains that, considering it’s relatively small size, New Zealand had a reasonable dinosaur representation. However it wasn’t until fairly recently, when amateur palaeontologist Joan Wiffen uncovered dinosaur bones in the Hawkes Bay, that scientists even knew that dinosaurs had roamed New Zealand. We now know that at least five types of dinosaurs were once found on the land in New Zealand:
* the carnivorous Theropod which stood around 2m tall and weighed in at 400kgs
* the Ankylosaurus an armour plated monster weighing around 500kgs
* a sauropod called Diplodocus which was the largest of all New Zealand dinosaurs at around 10m tall
* the well known, flying Pterosaur
* a herbivorous Ornithopod

In addition, two marine species were relatively common around the New Zealand coastline:
* Plesiosaur
* Mosasaur

Location: Victoria Street West Auckland, Auckland New Zealand 1142 Web Address or URL: [Web Link] Type of Dinosaur: Theropod, Diplodocus, Pterosaur, Ornithopod, Ankylosaurus

Visit Instructions:
Have someone take your picture with your GPS in front of the Dinosaur.

If your by yourself try to get yourself if you can. If not take a picture of your GPS and the Dinosaur.

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