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Beside a volcanic mound rises a twenty-metre tall diplodocus.
Around him are gathered another twenty dinosaurs, from peaceful herbi-
vores to predators like the terrifying T. rex. This is not a scene from the
new movie “Jurassic World”, which has been smashing world box office
records of late, but rather the scene from the dino-park in Svilajnac, a
small town in central Serbia.
The park, which houses accurate,
life-size replicas of reptiles and is the
only one of its kind in the Balkans, is
part of the Natural History Centre – a
scientific and educational institution
created with the goal of promoting
science, which was officially opened
last month.
Why is it that now, twenty-two
years after the world wowed at the mov-
ie “Jurassic Park”, dinosaurs are gen-
erating so much global attention? Is it
the primal tragedy that befell them; the
primordial natural force they met with;
melancholy over their disappearance...?
The park in Svilajnac, the 28
th
dino-park
in Europe and the 51
st
worldwide, is the
latest point in the unstoppable global
expansion of the fascination with these
antediluvian creatures.
Dinosaurs account for only part
of the Sviljanac complex. Four exhibi-
tion are located in the building of the
Natural History Centre. In the central
U unutrašnjosti
vulkana posetioci
uče o strukturi
planete
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Inside
the volcano
visitors learn
about the
structure of the
planet