T. Rex

The Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt is the largest museum of natural history in Germany. It is particularly popular with children, who enjoy the extensive collection of dinosaur skeletons: Senckenberg boasts the largest exhibition of large dinosaurs in Europe. A particular treasure is a dinosaur fossil with preserved, scaled skin. In addition, the museum contains the world's largest collection of stuffed birds, about 1000 specimens, and has the most diverse selection of species. In almost 400,000 people visited the museum. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2362x1904, 548 KB) From the German Wikipedia de:Bild:Senckenberg_mit_Dino. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2362x1904, 548 KB) From the German Wikipedia de:Bild:Senckenberg_mit_Dino. ... Binomial name Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn, 1905 For the rock group Tyrannosaurus Rex, see T. Rex (band). ...   Frankfurt am Main? [ˈfraÅ‹kfÊŠrt] is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany. ... Orders Saurischia    Sauropodomorpha    Theropoda Ornithischia Dinosaurs are animals that dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for over 100-million years. ...

The Senckenberg Museum

The building that houses the Senckenberg Museum was erected between 1904 and 1907 outside of the center of Frankfurt in the same area as the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, which was founded in 1914. The museum is owned and operated by the Senckenberg Nature Research Society, which began with an endowment by Johann Christian Senckenberg. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (3024x2016, 832 KB) From the German Wikipedia de:Bild:Senckenberg_Außenansicht_2005. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (3024x2016, 832 KB) From the German Wikipedia de:Bild:Senckenberg_Außenansicht_2005. ... I.G.Farben Building at Campus Westend The Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main (commonly called the University of Frankfurt) was founded in 1914 as a Citizens University, which means that while it was a State university of Prussia, it had been founded and financed by the wealthy...

Dinosaur in front of the museum

Today visitors are greeted outside the building by large, life-size recreations of dinosaurs, which are based on the latest scientific theories on dinosaur appearance. Inside one can follow the tracks of a Titanosaurus, which have been impressed into the floor, towards its impressive skeleton on a sheltered patio. Image File history File links Description: a plastik of a tyrannosaurus in front of the senckenberg. ... Image File history File links Description: a plastik of a tyrannosaurus in front of the senckenberg. ... Genera Aegyptosaurus Andesaurus Antarctosaurus Argentinosaurus Argyrosaurus Bruhathkayosaurus Paralititan Saltasaurus Titanosaurus Titanosaurids, or members of the family Titanosauridae, are sauropod dinosaurs such as Saltasaurus and Titanosaurus. ...

T. Rex on the first patio

Attractions include a parasaurolophus with it's crest, a fossilized psittacosaurus with clear bristles around its tail and visible fossilized stomach contents, and an oviraptor. Big public draws also included the tyrannosaurus rex, an original of the also enomous iguanodon, and the museum's mascot, the triceratops. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (3024x2016, 663 KB) From the German Wikipedia de:Bild:Senckenberg_Saurier_im_Lichthof. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (3024x2016, 663 KB) From the German Wikipedia de:Bild:Senckenberg_Saurier_im_Lichthof. ... A Picture of a Parasaurolophus Parasaurolophus is a hadrosaurid genus of dinosaurs, from the Upper Cretaceous (about 76-65 million years ago) of North America. ... A parrot dinosaur who lived in Asia in the Late Cretaceous. ... Oviraptor philoceratops was a small Mongolian theropod dinosaur named by H. F. Osborn in 1924. ... Binomial name Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn, 1905 Tyrannosaurus rex (tyrant lizard king) was a giant carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Upper Maastrichtian, the last stage of the Cretaceous period, 65 – 66 million years ago. ... Species (type) Iguanodon was the first dinosaur recognized, the second dinosaur formally named and described, and with Megalosaurus and Hylaeosaurus, one of the three originally used to define the new classification, Dinosauria. ... Species Triceratops ( three-horned face) is a ceratopsid herbivorous dinosaur genus from the Latest Cretaceous period of North America. ...

Original triceratops skulls

Although the dinosaurs attract the most visitors due to their size, the Senckenberg Museum also has a large collection of animal exhibits from every epoch of Earth's history. For example, the museum houses a large number of originals from the Messel pit: field mice, reptiles, fish, and a predecessor to the modern horse that lived about 50 million years ago and stood less than 60 cm tall. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 875 KB) From the German Wikipedia de:Bild:Senckenberg,_Triceratops. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 875 KB) From the German Wikipedia de:Bild:Senckenberg,_Triceratops. ... Species Triceratops ( three-horned face) is a ceratopsid herbivorous dinosaur genus from the Latest Cretaceous period of North America. ... The Messel Pit is a disused quarry in which bituminous shale was mined. ... cm redirects here, alternate uses: cm (disambiguation) A centimetre (symbol cm; American spelling: centimeter) is an SI unit of length. ...

Unique in Europe is a cast of the famous Lucy, an almost complete skeleton of the upright hominid australopithecus afarensis. Historical cabinets full of stuffed animals are arranged in the upper levels; among other things one can see 20 examples of the Quagga, which has been extinct since 1883. Binomial name Australopithecus afarensis Johanson & White, 1978 Lucy is a 3. ... Trinomial name Equus quagga quagga Boddaert, 1785 The Quagga is an extinct subspecies of the Plains Zebra, which was once found in great numbers in South Africas Cape Province and the southern part of the Orange Free State. ...

Since the remodeling finished in 2003, the new reptile exhibit addresses both the biodiversity of reptiles and amphibians and the topic of nature conservation. An accessible rain forest tree offers views of different zones of the rain forest from the ground to the tree canopy and the habitats to which the exotic reptiles have adapted.

The Senckenberg Museum offers regular evening lectures and tours. Admittance is usually free.