Travel back in time to see earth evolution at this fossil exhibition in central Vietnam
Monday, March 27, 2023, 12:03 GMT+7
Visitors to Hue City can travel back in time to see how the earth’s first living creatures evolved over billions of years thanks to a fossil exhibition in the central Vietnamese city.
The exhibition features thousands of fossils collected from across Vietnam and around the world.
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| Fossils on display at the fossil exhibition in Hue City, Vietnam. Photo: Dong Nguyen / Tuoi Tre News |
Billed as offering “a journey to discover the origin of life on earth,” the exhibition leads visitors on a journey through the planet’s evolution from the Hadean to the Precambrian and Phanerozoic eras.
It is being hosted by the Hanoi Fossil Museum in collaboration with the Hue Monuments Conservation Center and displays a host of plants, animals, and human fossils.
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| A human tooth fossil from the Pleistocene era on display at the exhibition. Photo: Dong Nguyen / Tuoi Tre News |
Some of the most notable fossils on display at the exhibition include tooth fossils from Carcharocles Megalodon sharks -- which lived from the Miocene to Pliocene eras -- found in the U.S. state of South Carolina, fossils from the Late Cretaceous’ mosasaur found in Morocco, and Vietnam’s oldest stone -- a 2.9 billion-year-old specimen which was discovered in the northern province of Yen Bai.
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| The oldest stone in Vietnam -- which is over 2.9 billion years old and was found in the northern province of Yen Bai. Photo: Dong Nguyen / Tuoi Tre News |
Other fossil items found in Vietnam displayed at the venue include Banhxeochelys fossils from the Eocene era which were excavated in the northern province of Lang Son, early Devonian’s Trilobites Ductina Vietnamica fossils discovered in the northern province of Bac Kan, and plant fossils found in northern Quang Ninh, Yen Bai, Lang Son Provinces.
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| A plant fossil found in Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam on display at the exhibition. Photo: Dong Nguyen / Tuoi Tre News |
The exhibition is open from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm from Tuesdays to Thursdays and 9:00 am to 8:00 pm from Fridays to Sundays at 76 Han Thuyen Street in Hue City, Thua Thien-Hue Province.
Tickets cost VND70,000 (US$3), with a 50-percent discount given to residents of Thua Thien-Hue Province.
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| Information about the evolution of the earth on display at the exhibition. Photo: Dong Nguyen / Tuoi Tre News |
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| A collection of ancient coral fossils on display at the venue. Photo: Dong Nguyen / Tuoi Tre News |
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| A Permian’s piece of chalcedony petrified wood found in Petrified Forest National Park in the U.S. state of Arizona is showcased at the exhibition. Photo: Dong Nguyen / Tuoi Tre News |
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| Eocene era's Banhxeochelys found in the northern province of Lang Son on show at the venue. Photo: Dong Nguyen / Tuoi Tre News |
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| Nautilus fossils on display at the exhibition. Photo: Dong Nguyen / Tuoi Tre News |
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