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Babban Khan
The Guinness record holder
for the longest running play, Adrak Ke Panje has had over 10,000 shows in
more than 27 languages
------------------------------------ 160 million-year-old Dinosaur in city's
Dinosaurian
"Dinosaurium",the new wing of the B.M.Birla Science Centre,which houses among other
exhibits, a 160 million -year-old mounted dinosaur skeleton which was unveiled here
by the CM, Mr.ChandraBabu Naidu at the "Dinosaurian' at B.M.Birla Science
Centre.
The Geological Survey of India helped in resurrecting the remains of the extinct animal by piecing together the 840 skeletal parts of the dinosaur excavated in Yamanpalli area of Adilabad
district. The fossil remains were first excavated in 1992 and from then, it
took seven years to resurrect the skeletal parts of the dinosaurs.
The other things in display are a nest with fossils of dinosaur eggs, marine
shells ,fossilized tree trunks and pictures that depict the life-cycle of the
dinosaurs. The dinosaurian also depicts the fauna that grew in those times and takes one on a journey into the past that shows various stages of the evolution of the dinosaurs till their
extinction.
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