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Address:
Sars gate 1, N-0562 Oslo, Norway.
Opening Hours:
Tue - Sun 11:00 - 16:00; Wed 11:00 - 20:00
Contact:
Elen Roaldset, Director
elen.roaldset@nhm.uio.no
Phone: + 47-22 85 16 70
Fax: +47-22 85 18 10
Links:
Paleontologisk Museum
University of Oslo
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Description:
The Earth is about 4.6 billion years old. Life has existed for more than 3 billion years. It began with primitive single celled organisms, and in the course of millions of years a multitude of life forms have evolved. The remains of animals and plants from the past are called fossils and those who study them are palaeontologists.
The first object you meet in the Main Hall is a ten metre long skeleton of the dinosaur Iguanodon, which lived 140 million years ago. A 400 million year old sea scorpion is also on exhibition here together with trilobites, cephalopds and some of the oldest fishes.
A million year old giant ground sloth from South America is also in this hall. The evolution of man can be studied here too.
The adjoining Dinosaur Hall contains a collection of skeletons and drawings of reptiles that lived on the land, in the air and in the sea. A dinosaur nest, containing six eggs, can be seen here.
[Text from the Web site: http://www.toyen.uio.no/toyensider/generelt.html#paleontologisk]
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