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The Allenton Hippo is a hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) skeleton that was found in Allenton, Derby, England, in 1895. [1] The skeleton is exhibited in Derby Museum and Art Gallery and is 3 metres (9.8 ft) in length. It is celebrated today in a sculpture near to where the skeleton was discovered. [2]
The Allenton Hippo is a substantive hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) skeleton that was found in Allenton, Derby, England in 1895. The skeleton is exhibited in Derby Museum and Art Gallery and is 3 metres (9.8 ft) in length. It is celebrated today in a sculpture near to where the skeleton was discovered.
Commissioned by Derby City Council, it forms a circular seating area on which are laser-scanned copies and models of some of the key bones of the Allenton Hippo skeleton at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery. [2] An easily recognisable feature of the local streetscape is a pedestrian footbridge over the Mitre Island roundabout, erected in July 1971.
Allenton hippopotamus is in Derby Museum. The Wikiarticle was written to show off the QR codes introduced into the museum as part of the museums collaboration with ...
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Kirkdale Cave is a cave and fossil site located in Kirkdale near Kirkbymoorside in the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire, England.It was discovered by workmen in 1821, and found to contain fossilized bones of a variety of mammals from the Eemian interglacial (globally known as the Last Interglacial, ~130-115,000 years ago), when temperatures were comparable to contemporary times, including ...
The remainder of the Armley Hippo's 122 bones are kept in the museum's archives. [5] It is rare to find such a large proportion of an ancient hippopotamus skeleton in the UK, it being more common to find just a few bones. [12] The Armley Hippo "is the most northerly specimen of its kind found in the UK". [13] "For generations it’s been the ...