POKÉMON Fossil Museum Touring Exhibit Coming to Japan
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If you asked a kid if they’d rather go to the zoo, or if they’d rather look at old bones and fossils in a museum, how many of them would choose the latter? Not a lot, right? That’s not to imply they’re wrong. It’s more fun seeing a giraffe or an elephant than some dusty old footprint or a bone. But soon, youngsters in Japan might choose to do just that. Thanks to a new
Pokémon touring exhibit that will combine those fictional animals with real paleontology.
Kensuke Yasui, left, a senior curator at the Toyohashi Museum of Natural History, explains about the donated skull of a Japanese wolf with Hirokazu Sakamoto, the museum’s director, at the Toyohashi city office in Aichi Prefecture. (Hiroto Motoi)
TOYOHASHI, Aichi Prefecture A canine skull that was used as an amulet to recover from diseases is now recognized as the only specimen of an extinct Japanese wolf in Aichi Prefecture, officials at a museum here said.
A 75-year-old woman from Toyokawa in the prefecture donated the cranium in January to the Toyohashi Museum of Natural History.
“The skull is an important specimen particularly because some skin tissue remains on it,” said Kensuke Yasui, 46, a senior curator at the museum. “We will analyze its DNA and other factors to obtain clues on when the animal is from and how it lived.”