Time Out says

A fearsome bunch of extinct mammals come together at this exhibition, created in collaboration with around 20 museums and research centres in Japan. Highlights include three complete skeletons that form a family of Asian straight-tusked elephants, a prehistoric species hunted for food by the early inhabitants of the Japanese islands, and fossils of the curious paleoparadoxia, an aquatic hippo-like animal that roamed the ancient sea bottom from Japan to Mexico.

Details

Open Jul 12-Oct 5 / closed Jul 14 & Sep 1, 8, 16, 29

Time 9am-5pm (Fri until 8pm)

Admission Adv ¥1,400, high school students and younger ¥500; same-day ¥1,600, high school students and younger ¥600

Telephone 03-5777-8600(ハローダイヤル)

Venue National Museum of Nature and Science

Address 7-20 Ueno Koen, Taito-ku

Transport Ueno Station (Yamanote line), park exit; (Ginza, Hibya lines) Shinobazu exit.

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