Otago Museum marketing manager Kate Oktay stands in the pond at the Dunedin Botanic Garden with an unidentified sea monster yesterday. PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSONMove over duck itch — now there is another reason not to swim in the pond at the Dunedin Botanic Garden. The frightful fin is a taster for Otago Museum’s latest exhibition — Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Ocean Predators — which runs from December 11 until May 1 next year. There would also be a hands-on Draw Alive space where children could create their own sea monster, scan it in and watch it digitally swim on a large screen. Exhibitions and creative services head Craig Scott said it was produced by the Australian National Maritime Museum which teamed up with one of the world’s leading sea monster experts, palaeontologist Dr Espen Knutsen, and kid curators.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 12, 2021 17:51 UTC