Gondwanaland Ho!

The Royal Ontario Museum has announced a new exhibition, Ultimate Dinosaurs: Giants from Gondwana, that I think I’m going to have to make time to see:

Surrounded by life-like environmental murals, the exhibition features real fossils, skeletons and 17 full-scale skeletal casts, many of which have never been seen before in Canada. ROM visitors will experience the world’s first display of Futalognkosaurus, a giant long-necked sauropod, one of the biggest animals to have ever walked the earth stretching 110 ft. long and weighing as much as 10 elephants. Also on display are Giganotosaurus, possibly the largest land predator to have ever lived, as well as the crocodile-faced spinosaur Suchomimus, and horned meat-eater Carnotaurus, and many more.

It’ll run from June 23, 2012 to January 6, 2013; I should be able to manage a visit to Toronto during that time. (Should I mention that the Canadian Museum of Nature has a Carnotaurus? They do.)