Ginormous Prehistoric Crocodile on Display in Darwin
Friday February 13, 2009
In light of Charles Darwin's 200th birthday celebrations, a 15m crocodile that roamed the country from about 200million years ago went on display this week at the NT Museum and Art Gallery, Darwin.
"We wanted to show Charles Darwin';s theory of evolution through an icon like the crocodile," said Paul, Horner, the exhibition curator, in the Northern Territory News.
The Supercrocodilians – Darwin's ultimate survival story exhibition, supported by the Northern Territory government, is free and features a reconstructed skull of a giant crocodile named sarcosuchus, meaning 'flesh crocodile' and commonly referred to as 'SuperCroc'.
A sarcosuchus is claimed to be the largest crocodile to exist and commonly weighed between eight to ten tones.
Other displays in the exhibition include the bone construction of a freshwater crocodile, 100million-year-old ancient fossils, as well as crocodiles from other parts of the world.
The Supercrocodilians exhibition finishes in November.
