Xiphactinus, Tyrannosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Liopleurodon, Troodon, Triceratops, Ankylosaurus, Odontochelys, Tuatara, Vieraella, Baryonyx, Arandaspis, Sarcosuchus, Ouranosaurus, Afrovenator, Repenomamus, Tarabosaurus, Therizinosaurus, Cretoxyrhina, Tylosaurus, Spinosaurus, Suchomimus, Carcharodontosaurus, Purple frog, Inoceramus, and others!

Many scientists are fascinated by the Trilobites because they give us important information on the evolution. Dr. Yumiko Iwasaki is one of the researchers who are trapped by wonder of Trilobites.

Every fossil is very precious thing in which lives of ancient animals are recorded. The complete specimen of a Dinosaur is even rarer, because it is exceptional event that the body of dead dinosaur turns to be fossilized.

It is a simple question. Do you know why?

Let's think about the size of dinosaurs with Jack the Lizard

Many people think that birds are a group of dinosaurs because they share many common features other than flying.

Paleozoic Era was the time dinosaurs did not emerge yet. From 542 to 252 million years ago however there were full of diversified life on the earth, most of them suddenly disappeared just before dinosaurs’ time. Let’s take a look at the nature of Paleozoic era.

It is very fascinating to see the fossils of dinosaurs, while variety of animals had proliferated and adapted themselves to the Ocean. Each of them had their own story in the course of evolution. Let’s find out how ocean animals lived and passed lives down to the next generation during the Dino Age.

Some mammal had started to evolve into aquatic animal from the Early Eocene Period, about 50 to 40 million years ago. They were back to water from land. Then gradually they had become the ancient of cetacean family.

In Fossil Gallery you can see the variety of dinosaurs from carnivorous to herbivorous ones. Marine creatures from the ancient sea are also on display. Most of the specimens are real and complete. Those are in fact very beautiful!!

Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is located at the city of Toronto, Canada. It is the iconic attraction of Toronto now. The galleries are organized in two main themes, World Cultures and Natural History. The natural history galleries are sorted into groups of the Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Tertiary and the Quaternary Period. Dinosaurs and the other animals were grouped into terrestrial and aquatic habitats in each period.

Smithsonian Institution is the research and museum complex which located in Washington D.C. the capital city of the U.S.A. National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is one of the most popular places in Smithsonian Institution. NMNH is divided into several halls such as the hall of mammals, insects and geology.

40 years ago, AMNH has started its history in New York City. The collection is one of the finest and largest in the world. This time we visited the Dinosaur Hall.

Mifune Museum is located in Kumamoto, Japan. In 1979 one first grade boy was looking for the fossils of clams for his summer project at Mifune-machi (Mifune town) in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan. Then accidentally he found something different in the rock. That was the first carnivorous dinosaur ever found in Japan. It was tooth of Megalosauridae, named “Mifune ryu” (means Mifune dragon).

Mukawa Town Hobetsu Museum opened to exhibit Elasmosaurus, found in the mountain of Hobetsu, in 1982. Huge Elasmosaurus welcomes you at the entrance hall, but it is just a beginning of your tour. The museum has fossils of very rare sea turtles, mosasaurus, ammonite and more from ocean in Mesozoic era.