Dinausaures

Tunis scientific exhibit to showcase Saharan dinosaurs

15:08, May 21, 2011      

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The Tunis Science City will host on May 24 a scientific exhibit on Saharan dinosaurs, the official press agency TAP reported on Friday.

The exhibit which will kick start on May 24, aims at showcasing the country's rich geological heritage. Through an elaborate, robotized sound and light re-enactment of the epoch when dinosaurs ruled the world, the exhibit will give life to the Carcharodontosaurus, the Spinosaurus and the Iguanadon some 65 million years after their extinction.

The first dinosaur fossils were discovered in southern Tunisia in 1951. Since then, the region has become a privileged destination for paleontologists and geologists.

In March, a team composed of Tunisian and Italian scientists discovered the intact skeleton of a 15-meter dinosaur believed to have lived some 110 million years ago.

The fossil was found near Tataouine, some 450 km south of the capital. In 2010, fossils of large footprints of both herbivore and carnivore dinosaurs were discovered in Chenini, near Tataouine.