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 Welcome to the Dinosaurs of China newsletter.
In this edition:
- Tickets now on sale. Grab yours now!
- Meet two more fearsome dinos
- Film - an intro to the project
- Ticket competition to celebrate Chinese New Year
- New website is live
- Follow us on social
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Ticket launch event
We celebrated the ticket launch just before Christmas.
A group of children from Seely Primary School came to visit
for the day, wearing masks they had made of their favourite dinosaurs. They got to
hear about the awe-inspiring exhibit – the Mamenchisaurus -
as tall as three double decker buses. When displayed in the
exhibition, this will fill the full height of the magnificent Great Hall inside
Wollaton Hall.
A double decker bus – courtesy of Nottingham City Transport was on
site to help the school children really understand the scale of this incredible
dinosaur.
The children also got to meet Nottingham Lakeside Arts' very own
‘Diana Saurus’ - a lively safari
guide who will be at Lakeside Arts throughout the exhibition delivering
family fun activities.
See below for pictures from the day including children meeting Diana Saurus, Dr Wang Qi presenting part of a skeleton, and Nottingham
City Council's Portfolio Holder for Leisure and Culture - Councillor Dave
Trimble with Seely School celebrating the ticket launch.
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 Snap up your tickets today!
Be one of the thousands to have already snapped up their Dinosaurs of China tickets.
There is a special preview day or you can book your preferred timeslot right up to the end of the exhibition in October.
Preview day - see it first!
Those holding a preview ticket will have access to a special event
on Saturday 1 July.
They will be the first people to see this once in a
lifetime exhibition.
Visitors on July 1 will
have the chance to listen to meet the curators and will be part of the opening celebrations with
special events and activities running throughout the day.
Tickets for the preview event are £9 adult
and £7 child.
Book your tickets online here
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Click to book your tickets online
 Notts TV
We now have a section on our website for local media partner Notts TV
There is footage from the ticket launch event in November - and we will add interviews and articles as we get closer to the exhibition.
Great news! You can switch on to our local media partner Notts TV for all things dinosaur.
Keep an eye out for lots of announcements, events and interviews leading up to the exhibition.
Follow Notts TV on Twitter
Notts TV is
Nottinghamshire’s local TV channel, available on Freeview 7, Virgin 159, Sky
117 and On Demand, 24hrs a day, 7 days a week.
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Introduction to Dinosaurs of China with Dr Adam Smith and Dr Wang Qi
Have a look at this short film which explains the exhibition in a bit more detail and also gives you the chance to meet two of the key figures working on the project.
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Meet the dinosaurs
(find out more at the website)
 Epidexipteryx
Size: ~30 cm long; about the size of pigeon
Diet: Probably an omnivore (e.g. insects, seeds, fruits)
Named by: Fucheng Zhang, Zhonghe Zhou, Xing Xu, Xiaolin Wang and Corwin Sullivan in 2000
Place of discovery: Daohugou, Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia, northeastern China
Description: Epidexipteryx is a bizarre small dinosaur with a blunt skull containing goofy-looking large teeth. It has a short neck, long arms and legs, and two pairs of extremely long ribbon-like feathers on its stubby tail. Each of these strap-like feathers is about as long as the head and body combined
Reference: Zhang, F.; Zhou, Z.; Xu, X.; Wang, X.; and Sullivan, C. (2008). A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran from China with elongate ribbon-like feathers. Nature. 455, 1105–1108
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 Yi qi
Size: ~30 cm long; about the size of pigeon.
Diet: Probably an omnivore (e.g.
insects, seeds, fruits).
Named by:
Xu, X.; Zheng, X.; Sullivan, C.; Wang, X.; Xing,
L.; Wang, Y.; Zhang, X.; O’Connor, J. K.; Zhang, F.; Pan, Y in 2015.
Place of discovery: Mutoudeng, Qinglong County,
Hebei Province, northeastern China.
Description: Yi
qi is a bizarre small dinosaur.
It had a large head, short neck, long arms and legs, and long delicate fingers.
Its body was covered with fuzzy feathers and it had wing membranes for flying.
Reference: Xu, X.; Zheng, X.; Sullivan, C.; Wang,
X.; Xing, L.; Wang, Y.; Zhang, X.; O’Connor, J. K.; Zhang, F.; Pan, Y. 2015. A
bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran theropod with preserved evidence of membranous
wings. Nature. 521: 70–3.
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 Chinese New Year competition - win a family ticket
To celebrate Chinese New Year and the Year of the Rooster, we are giving away a
family ticket to the exhibition.
Our dinosaurs will be travelling over 40 days, making the
journey from China and show the evolution of dinosaurs into birds.
How to enter - To
be in with a chance of winning, simply sign up to the newsletter using the link
below before Tuesday 31 January. Entrants will be chosen at random and the winner will receive a family ticket for a day of their choice*.
Everybody signed up to the newsletter will be automatically be entered into the
prize draw but please feel free to share
this chance to win a ticket with your friends and family.
Enter the Chinese New Year Competition
*Excluding preview date and special events.
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