Extinction – Resilience

Exhibition features

  • Permanent palaeontology gallery at the Hong Kong Science Museum
  • 800 sqm exhibition area
  • Large scale aquarium-like animations of early life in the ocean
  • Animated explanations of what caused each mass extinction
  • Unique, illustrated ‘whodunnit’ challenge to investigate our T-rex Paul’s death
  • A Paleo Lab introduces different types of palaeontology research
  • Scientific Advisors: Natural History Museum Los Angeles, Swire Institute of Marine Science, The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Science

Exhibition period

  • Hong Kong Science Museum
  • Permanent Gallery, opened on 19 October 2023

Attendance

  • 1 million visitors per year
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Life has been evolving for billions of years since it first emerged on our planet. While most of us are familiar with dinosaurs, did you know that prehistoric ‘dragonflies’ with a wingspan of nearly 70 centimetres once ruled the skies?

With over 100 sets of rare fossil specimens - including 3-billion-year-old stromatolites, the world's most complete Deinonychus fossil, a woolly mammoth more than 3 metres tall and petrified trees - this exhibition lets visitors get up close-and-personal to life-sized dinosaurs as they explore prehistoric biodiversity, the evolution of life, mass extinctions, and the remarkable resurrection of life.

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Entrance zone
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Realistic, touchable replicas of key historical fossils
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Deinonychus skeleton
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Paleo Lab with the ‘whodunnit’ challenge