Showing posts with label Exhibitions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Exhibitions. Show all posts

Monday, 2 November 2015

Pugs dress-up in costume for Halloween

Check out this special Halloween costume parade with a difference, it's just for pug-dogs.

Cute aren't they?


The parade was held in Ukraine, where about a hundred pugs showed off their finest costumes.
The devilish-doggies dressed up as spiders, angels, dragons and Halloween themed film characters.
It's simply pug-tastic! (CBBC Newsround)

Tuesday, 6 October 2015

Beard and Moustache Championships

The Championships first started in 1990, and have increased in popularity every year. Now 350 bearded competitors are competing.


Meet the hairy competitors


A host of bearded competitors
Bearded competitors from all over the world are gathering in Austria, for this year's annual Beard and Moustache World Championships.
Around 350 contestants from 20 different countries have signed up to show off their hairy facial sculptures, in the hopes of being crowned champions.
Hairy competitors can take part in 18 different categories, including best goatie, best stubble and best fashion beard.
Here is a closer look at some of the whiskered wonders who will be competing...
take a look at this moustache that looks like tusks
The championships take place in a different country every year, and the UK even held one in 2007. Take a look at this mighty tusk moustache!

Tuesday, 9 June 2015

Theropod-the first meat-eating dinosaur goes on show in Wales

This is an artist's impression of a meat-eating Jurassic dinosaur that was found on a south Wales beach in 2014.


Artist's reconstruction of the dinosaur based on fossils found in south Wales
The fossilised skeleton is only now being revealed to the public for the first time.It's a small theropod dinosaur.That's a distant cousin of the giant Tyrannosaurus Rex.It would have stood at about 50 cm high and about 2 metres long.
Nick and Rob Hanigan working at Lavernock beach
Nick and Rob Hanigan uncover the fossilised remains inch by inch
Fossil-hunting brothers Nick and Rob Hanigan found it at Lavernock, Vale of Glamorgan. There had been a cliff rock fall.
They have now donated it to the National Museum Wales.
Experts there believe the fossilised remains date back more than 200 million years to the very earliest part of the Jurassic Period.
The theropod is the first meat-eating dinosaur fossil to be found in Wales.
It's also one of the oldest finds from the Jurassic Period in the world.
The fossils show it had lots of small blade-like teeth. That suggests it lived on insects, small mammals and other reptiles.
Claw fossil
One of the Dinosaur's fossilised claws
The brothers spent last year carefully preparing five stone blocks to uncover the full fossil, before getting in touch with museum experts.
"This is a once-in-a-lifetime find," said Nick Hanigan. "Preparing the skull to seeing the teeth of a theropod for the first time in 200 million years was fantastic - you just can't beat that sort of thing."
Hand and claw bones
'Hand' and claw bones
is brother Rob said, "It has always been our intention to donate our dinosaur to the museum for the public and scientists to see and research."
The hip and vertebrae of the Welsh dinosaur called a ''theropod''
The hip and vertebrae of the Welsh dinosaur called a ''theropod''
-Theropod dinosaur Fact file-
  • Location: Fossilised skeleton found on a beach near Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan
  • Family: Distant cousin of Tyranossaurus rex
  • Era: earliest part of the Jurassic Period 201 million years ago, possibly making it the oldest dinosaur in the world
  • Diet: First ever meat eating dinosaur 
From CBBC News