Otago Museum marketing manager Charlotte Neilson gets in close with a life-like animatronic version of a carnivorous, sabre-toothed Inostrancevia, with an armoured, plant-eating Scutosaurus behind. The answer is the ''Life before Dinosaurs: Permian Monsters exhibition''. It will run at the Otago Museum from this Saturday until February 25 next year. The exhibition has been assembled and installed this week with assistance from Australian touring curator Craig McCormack. He said that Gondwana touring shows, featuring dinosaurs or Permian creatures, had proved highly popular and animatronic monsters that moved were ''the thing that really generates the interest''.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 23, 2017 18:11 UTC