Kolkata's very own Indian electronic dinosaurs museum: Archive

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If Steven Speilberg was to make a sequel to his worldwide mega blockbuster today, he would not have to search too far to recreate his mechanical protagonists. This time his first stop would probably not be one of Hollywood's fantasy laboratories but at Calcutta's science city where dinosaurs alive the largest exposition of its kind in the world opened. A brain child of the National Council of science musuems or NCSM the month long exhibition has on display 14 robotic dinosaurs alive and howling in all their fury. To dino maniacs of all ages an eye to eye encounter with a fierce Tyrannosaurus, a gigantic Diplodocus or a toothless Oviraptor seemed all too incredibly real bringing back the life and times of a prehistoric age. This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wild