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This prehistoric sea reptile, an 11-metre (37-foot) elasmosaurus, arrives by truck at the Metro zoo yesterday to spend the summer impressing visitors (...)

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This prehistoric sea reptile, an 11-metre (37-foot) elasmosaurus, arrives by truck at the Metro zoo yesterday to spend the summer impressing visitors (...)

Date5/18/1990

Names

Metropolitan Toronto Zoo (subject)

Slaughter, Mike (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Notes

Original Toronto Star caption: This prehistoric sea reptile; an 11-metre (37-foot) elasmosaurus; arrives by truck at the Metro zoo yesterday to spend the summer impressing visitors as part of the Ancient Seas . . . Modern Mysteries exhibit; which opens this weekend. The animated model had to be wheeled about a kilometre to the exhibit site.

Subject

Zoos

Medium

Photographs

Language

English

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)

Object NumberTSPA_0116389F

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