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Ed Leith Cretaceous Menagerie

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Type
  
historical museum

Ed Leith Cretaceous Menagerie

Location
  
Wallace Building, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Website
  
www.umanitoba.ca/geoscience/cretaceousmenagerie

Similar
  
Canadian Fossil Discovery, Winnipeg Railway Museum, Manitoba Museum, Assiniboine Park Zoo, Reptilia

The Ed Leith Cretaceous Menagerie is a museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The museum is housed in the atrium area of the Wallace Building at the University of Manitoba. It is educational, interactive and publicly accessible. The menagerie features complete skeletal replicas of four creatures. Three of the specimens are marine: a gigantic, vicious fish, the world's largest sea turtle and an enormous, formidable mosasaur ('sea lizard'). Finally, an aggressive tyrannosaurid dinosaur represents the land creatures.

Affiliations

The Museum is affiliated with: CMA, CHIN, and Virtual Museum of Canada.

References

Ed Leith Cretaceous Menagerie Wikipedia