Mongolia ditches tyrant-osaurus Lenin for the real thing: "A museum once dedicated to the Soviet dictator is to be transformed into a centre to display Mongolia's wealth of prehistoric fossils, including that of a 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus bataar.
The grand building, which still boasts a giant bust of Vladimir Ilyich, has been used as offices for several years, but the government has earmarked the complex for a dinosaur museum.
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''Mongolia has been sending dinosaur exhibits abroad for 20 years,'' the Minister for Culture, Sports and Tourism, Oyungerel Tsedevdamba, said. ''We have a wonderful dinosaur heritage but people are not aware of it.''"
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The grand building, which still boasts a giant bust of Vladimir Ilyich, has been used as offices for several years, but the government has earmarked the complex for a dinosaur museum.
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''Mongolia has been sending dinosaur exhibits abroad for 20 years,'' the Minister for Culture, Sports and Tourism, Oyungerel Tsedevdamba, said. ''We have a wonderful dinosaur heritage but people are not aware of it.''"
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