Big Ed dino's back home.Byline: DAVID YOUNG David Young could refer to:
AFTER a three-year sabbatical one of the Ulster Museum's most recognised faces returned to work yesterday. But Edmontosaurus, the 6m dinosaur skeleton, would hardly have recognised the place as it got all four of his feet back behind the desk. In the three years it's been in storage at a secret location, the museum in Belfast's Botanic Gardens has undergone a multimillion pound transformation. While the 70 million-yearold herbivore herbivore: see carnivore. herbivore Animal adapted to subsist solely on plant tissues. Herbivores range from insects (e.g., aphids) to large mammals (e.g., elephants), but the term is most often applied to ungulates. adjusted to its new surroundings, its bosses revealed the popular visitor attraction will reopen to the public on October 22 - the 80th anniversary of the opening of the original museum. Dr Mike Simms, head of palaeontology at the museum, said it was great to have the duck-billed dinosaur back where it belonged. The skeleton was first discovered in the Ruth Mason Quarry in South Dakota South Dakota (dəkō`tə), state in the N central United States. It is bordered by North Dakota (N), Minnesota and Iowa (E), Nebraska (S), and Wyoming and Montana (W). , USA, and was bought by the museum in 1984 for around pounds 80,000. Dr Simms said: "This is the only complete dinosaur anywhere in Ireland. "The only sort of places they have got ones like this are national museums." 1984 Year the dinosaur was bought by the Ulster Museum for around pounds 80,000 CAPTION(S): GIGANTIC JIG-SAUR The last piece of the dinosaur's skeleton went into place yesterday at the Ulster Museum |
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