Special 3rd exhibition commemorating the museum’s opening Huge! Mie Elephant!―The world of huge elephants as presented by

Special 3rd exhibition commemorating the museum’s opening Huge! Mie Elephant!―The world of huge elephants as presented by: 2014.07.14 23:59 입력

<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px;"> The Mie Elephant is an ancient elephant, given the scientific name of Stegodon miensis. It has a length of 8 m and height of 4 m. This elephant is considered to be the largest terrestrial mammals in history, whose fossils have been discovered in Japan. The Mie Elephant inhabited areas near the Japanese archipelago approximately 4.3 to 3 million years ago, and was given a scientific name that included “Mie” because it was first discovered in Geinou-cho, Tsu City, Mie Prefecture in 1882. The Mie Prefectural Museum has reconstructed and displayed a complete skeleton of the Mie Elephant for the first time in Japan.</span><br style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><br style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px;"> The age of the Mie Elephant is from the Pliocene Epoch, when the earth was a vast warm-temperature environment. The Quaternary Period began, after the Pliocene Epoch ended, approximately 2.6 million years ago. Radical climate changes alternating between interglacial and glacial periods began. Resolving the various phenomena that occurred all over the world during this period of radically changing climate can present critically important data for solving today’s global warming issues. In Mie, approximately 2 million to 1.2 million years ago, when the Quaternary Period began, it is known that Akebono Elephant (Stegodon aurorae) lived. The Akebono Elephant is considered to be a descendant of Mie Elephant, had a height of only 2 m. This led to the presumption that the Elephant miniaturized while evolving in order to adapt to the environment in that period.</span><br style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><br style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px;"> In recent years, the Tokai Group, a group of strata that accumulated in the period when Mie Elephant evolved into Akebono Elephant, was comprehensively investigated mainly by the former Mie Prefectural Museum, and this study produced many findings.</span><br style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px;"> In this special exhibition, in addition to displays showing the evolution of the Elephant, including Mie Elephant and Akebono Elephant, research results of geological features, microfossils and large fossils, which were clarified in the investigation by the former Mie Prefectural Museum, will be introduced. As well as climatic changes in this period and changes in the natural environment that followed.</span><br style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><br style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px;">[Organized by] Mie Prefectural Museum [In cooperation with] Osaka Museum of Natural History, Usa City Board of Education, Iki City Board of Education, Gotsu City Board of Education, Kameyama City Historical Museum, Yokkaichi Municipal Museum, Kuwana City Board of Education, Iga City Board of Education </span><div><br></div><div><table id="news_image" class="center" align="center" width="700"><tbody><tr><td><img src="http://themetn.com/PEG/14053499616046.jpg" width="700" align="absmiddle"></td></tr></tbody></table><br style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><br style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px;">҅◆Period: July 29 (Tue) – September 28 (Sun), 2014 </span><br style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><br style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px;">◆Open: Weekdays: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Saturdays, Sundays, holidays: 9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. </span><br style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><br style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px;">◆Closed: Mondays (next day if Monday is a holiday) </span><br style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><br style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px;">◆Fees: [Fees] Adults: 800 yen, University students: 480 yen, high school students or younger: Free</span><br style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Roboto, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px;"><br></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: normal;"><u style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: justify; font-family: 굴림; font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 23.3999996185303px;"><font size="2" face="굴림"><a href="http://themetn.com/news/view.html?section=82&category=141&no=1934" target="_blank">☞ 실전형 여행작가 아카데미 테마여행신문 여행기자단 23기 모집(5/23) </a></font></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.80000114440918px;"><u></u> </span></p></div>