Rare collectibles in Abu Dhabi reveal the story of planet Earth 13.8 billion years ago
The exhibition includes artifacts belonging to ancient life in the Emirates, including the dugong's skull and lower jaw.
Photography: Najeeb Mohamed
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A journey through history that Abu Dhabi offers to the public to learn about aspects of the story of planet Earth nearly 13.8 billion years ago, through the exhibition hosted by Manarat Al Saadiyat in Abu Dhabi, and displays the most prominent rare collections of the Natural History Museum in Abu Dhabi, which is scheduled to be completed in 2025.
The exhibition, which opened its doors to the public yesterday, and continues until May 12, and whose design was inspired by the museum’s geometric shape that resembles natural rock formations, presents a general account of the most prominent holdings of the Natural History Museum from around the world, as it includes 12 rare pieces, most notably the famous Tyrannosaurus skeleton. Stan, who lived 67 million years ago and is 39 feet (11.7 meters) long, is considered one of the best preserved and most studied fossils of this creature from the late Cretaceous period.
Where scientists have spent years of scientific studies of "Stan", which enabled them to learn a lot of information about the life of this type of dinosaur.
The exhibition also includes the "Murchison" meteorite, which fell in an Australian town more than 40 years ago, allowing scientists to discover new information about the beginnings of the formation of the solar system.
The meteorite contains a large group of organic compounds "stellar dust", in addition to the lunar meteorite, which is a piece of the moon that was found in northwest Africa.
The grains of the pre-solar system, which were formed more than seven billion years ago, long before the emergence of the current solar system, which will help scientists in studying and analyzing the stages of the development of life on the planet.
The exhibition also provides a historical overview of the beginning of the universe, and information about some organisms that lived in the late Cretaceous period. In making up the modern African savannah, it was rich in fertile plains teeming with life.
The exhibition includes a number of collectibles belonging to ancient life in the Emirates, including the dugong's skull and lower jaw, which were found on the island of Marawah in the Al Dhafra region of Abu Dhabi, and their origins date back to Australia, Asia and the Indian Ocean.
And the extinct primitive elephant with four tusks discovered in the Emirates, and the skull of the Arabian sand deer “Al-Reem gazelle”, which inhabited the Middle East, specifically in the regions of the Arab deserts as far as Syria, Iraq and Jordan.
• The exhibition provides a historical overview of the beginning of the universe and information about creatures that lived in the Cretaceous period.
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