Dinosaur Museum - Ulaanbaatar Mongolia

 

The Central Dinosaur Museum of Mongolia is about 15 minutes walk from Sükhbaatar square. The dinosaur fossils found in the Gobi desert are kept here.

Cost $NZ450 a ticket, and another $NZ5 for your camera pass.  This is common in Mongolia.

Walk up the stairs to a huge platform that hold some amazing fossils.

Tarbosaurus baatar. 10 - 12 m long, 2-3 ton.

Oviraptor fossils.  Can you see the feather imprints? These small theropod dinosaurs were 1.5m -2m long.

Dinosaur teeth! Protoceratops are the most abundant dinosaur in Mongolia.

Saurolophus lived about 70 million years ago. 

Protoceratops lived about 85 million years ago.

Dinosaur eggs!

Omnivorus skeletons. Late cretaceous period 90 million years ago.  Grew up to 8m

The centrepiece of the museum is the 4m-tall, 3-tonne, flesh-eating Tarbosaurus bataar (a cousin of the Tyrannosaurus rex).

Nomingia Oviraptor

Nomingia Oviraptor head and claws

Along the walls are fascinating dinosaur specimens. Here is an Iguanodon.

Another Protoceratops skeleton.Amazing details.

Allosaurus. The jaw is different shape to Tarbosaurus.

Dinosaur egg nests

Tarbosaurus baatar

Ankylosaurus fossil. Look at that tail lump!

Saurolophus, or duckbill dinosaur

Ankylosaurus skull and full sized model

In the adjacent room, there are more fossils, and bones.

Fossilised fish

Fossilised turtles.

Mammoth tusk

Bottom view of a Mammoth's tooth

Mammoth jawbone with teeth

In the next section of the museum, are rocks and crystals. On the walls are birds, insects, and butterflies. The last section has stuffed animals of Mongolia.