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The mammoth steppe stretched from the British Isles in the west across the dry North Sea, Europe, vast parts of Asia, and the dry Bering Sea and Bering Strait to North America in the east. This cold, dry, and nearly treeless grassland was the domain of large grazers. In addition to woolly mammoths and woolly […]

The genus name Psittacosaurus is derived from the ancient Greek word psittakos, meaning “parrot.” The name of this parrot-like dinosaur was given because its short, curved beak closely resembles that of a parrot. The species name mongoliensis refers to the first discovery site of this Cretaceous dinosaur in Mongolia. Between 125 and 110 million years […]

The musk ox, like the reindeer, is a relic of the Ice Age. In the final phase of the Ice Age, the musk ox was very common on the mammoth steppe. It is a relatively small animal with a shoulder height between that of a modern sheep (Ovis) and a cow (Bos), which is why […]

This fragment of one of the two tusks carried by a large male woolly mammoth is a European and almost a world record. The weight of this fragment is 84.8 kilograms. The circumference of the tusk is 66.2 cm, making it one of the largest circumferences ever found in a woolly mammoth tusk worldwide! Had […]

The impressive exhibition “1940 – 1945” showcases objects used during World War II. For example, it displays uniforms actually worn by Dutch, German, British, American, and Canadian soldiers, as well as a uniform of a Dutch SS member and even a striped suit worn by a political prisoner in a concentration camp. Historyland also presents […]

Left Hind Leg Original bones, heavily fossilized. The upper part, the femur, weighs 42 kilograms on its own! 3D-Printed Skull The teeth show that the Camarasaurus was a herbivore. The Camarasaurus lived during the Jurassic period, 156 to 146 million years ago. It was a sauropod dinosaur, meaning it belonged to the main group of […]

This is a forelimb of a Triceratops. A Triceratops was a large herbivorous dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period (66 million years ago) in what is now North America. It could grow up to nine meters long and reach a shoulder height of nearly three meters. It weighed approximately 12,000 kilograms. Its head […]

Replicas of the lower jaws, measuring 512 cm (!) in length, from a real baleen whale, one of the largest animals on Earth. These marine mammals can reach an enormous length of up to 30 meters and primarily feed on small crustaceans. They filter these from seawater by taking water into their mouths and then […]

Replica of a skull with lower jaws featuring sharp, serrated teeth. This life-sized cast is from an Allosaurus skeleton excavated at the Dinosaur National Monument in Utah and Colorado. This carnivorous dinosaur, measuring over 8.5 meters in length, was a true killing machine. Nearly complete skeletons of this dinosaur species have been unearthed in North […]

Around 350 million years ago, giants lived on Earth, such as the enormous dragonfly Meganeura monyi. This so-called “griffinfly” was the largest flying insect ever to exist, with a wingspan of over 70 cm—about the size of a crow. Imagine one of these flying toward you! During this period, you might also have encountered the […]