Museum unveils Stink-o-saurus
In the latest move to recreate the age of the dinosaurs, a new exhibit in Britain is including 'eau de dinosaur'.
A new exhibition opening this week at the Museum's dinosaur gallery, features a T.rex that not only moves, but stinks as well.
Palaentologists paint a smelly portrait of T.rex. For a start, it ate carrion often weeks old, and so it's breath would have stunk of rotten meat from the shreds which stayed wedged in its sharp teeth. Added to this, it would have had septic wounds the size of dinner plates covering its body from battles.
But at the last minute, curators decided the stench would be too much. Audrey O'Connell who is head of international business at the Museum told Associated Press: "We investigated a number of smells at first, but the reality of dead, rotting flesh was so off-putting, we figured we should go with the smell of the T.rex's environment instead of it's breath."
The Museum commissioned the Dale Air Deodorising company from Northern England to come up with the right aroma. The result is a boggy, acrid, earthy smell called Maastrichtian Miasma.
The scent will waft around the three-quarter size, seven metre long model, which cost about $700,000 to make. It will join 15 complete dinosaur skeletons as well as life-size robotic models of three vicious Deinonychus in the gallery.
Another museum has made inquiries to Dale Air Deodorising about dinosaur smells, and have asked specifically for dead dinosaur, dinosaur breath, and dinosaur droppings.