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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