Peterborough's new exhibit will be 'roarsome'

A two-year wait due to Covid-19 may seem a long time to us, but it’s no time at all when you think that T-Rex and his fellow dinosaurs lived nearly 70 million years ago!

Peterborough Cathedral has announced that the Natural History Museum’s touring exhibition, T-Rex: The Killer Question, will be shown in the 900-year-old building from July 18 to September 3, this year.

Plans to present the exhibition in 2020 and 2021 had to be shelved due to the pandemic.

This world class exhibition has nine roaring and moving animatronic dinosaurs of various sizes, including a three-quarter size T-Rex. A 12-metre-long static model of a T-Rex and a life-size T-Rex skeleton will also be on show, facing each other across the Cathedral transepts.

The exhibition poses the killer question: Was T-Rex a ferocious hunter or a mere scavenger? To help visitors think about this, the exhibition presents scenes showing the behaviour of several different dinosaur species, from the small and agile Sauronitholestes, to the savage Dromaeosaurus and the plant-eating Tenontosaurus. It also shows examples of bones and fossils to see what they can tell us about T-Rex.

It is expected that tickets for the exhibition will go on sale within the next few weeks.