Six Extinctions
Canterbury Museum opened its pop-up museum at CoCA on Matariki with a free temporary exhibition – Six Extinctions, featuring a 13-metre T-rex skeleton – alongside displays of collection highlights and visitor favourites.
Visitors to Six Extinctions will come face to face with some of the top predators of each geological period including Dunkleosteus, a giant armoured fish that terrorised the seas and Inostrancevia, a tiger-sized sabre-toothed beast.
From there they will explore the five mass extinction events in the Earth’s history, and the sixth and current extinction crisis – climate change – which is the first caused by a single species, humans.
Produced by Gondwana Studios.
Visitors to Six Extinctions will come face to face with some of the top predators of each geological period including Dunkleosteus, a giant armoured fish that terrorised the seas and Inostrancevia, a tiger-sized sabre-toothed beast.
From there they will explore the five mass extinction events in the Earth’s history, and the sixth and current extinction crisis – climate change – which is the first caused by a single species, humans.
Produced by Gondwana Studios.
Canterbury Museum at CoCA, 66 Gloucester Street, Christchurch Central
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