Jurassic Research Center @ The TOP

Jurassic Research Center (20 January 2017)


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Jurassic Research Center is an interactive activity centre at The TOP in Komtar, Penang. Created to educate and entertain, the centre has informative exhibits on paleontology, from displays of fossils to replicas of excavation sites.

Two of the highlights of the Jurassic Research Center are the Dinosaur Lab, where dinosaur eggs are hatched, and the Jurassic Park, where is inhabited by life-style dinosaurs. These mechanical dinosaurs move and make realistic sounds.

As I wandered through the Jurassic Research Center, I am conscious that on one hand, the creators of this attraction have gone to great pains to stimulate a research centre where dinosaurs could be hatched and bred, and on the other hand, how tacky the exhibits appear. At that moment, I realised the necessity to put aside the jaded viewpoint of an adult, and see things through the eye of a child.

Just think of it: if you were to ask a famous scientist, how he got interested in science, he might point to a tattered, dog-eared science magazine or comic book which a grown up might dismiss as simplistic or childish. So too with the Jurassic Research Center. It may be just the catalyst to propel an impressionable child into one day becoming a world-class scientist, and he could trace his interest back to his visit here.

Me and Dino at the Jurassic Research Center (20 January 2017)

Visiting the Jurassic Research Center

The Jurassic Research Center is part the Avenue of Adventures at The Top. You can purchase the individual ticket for it, which is RM58 per adult above 130cm (RM48 with MyKad) and RM48 per child between 90cm to 130cm (RM38 with MyKid), or enjoy it as part of Package A bundle of all the Avenue of Adventures attractions.

Here I am about to enter the Jurassic Research Center (20 January 2017)


And to take me around the Jurassic Research Center is my host, Professor Harith Iskandar! (20 January 2017)


Exhibit of T. Rex fossil (20 January 2017)


Exhibit of various fossils (20 January 2017)


Paleontological excavation site (20 January 2017)


My wife at the Dinosaur Hatchery, where Velociraptors are hatched (20 January 2017)


Scientist checking on dinosaur hatchlings in the incubator. (20 January 2017)


Scientist petting a Stegosaurus at the Jurassic Research Center. (20 January 2017)


Life-size Tyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptors in the outdoor park of the Jurassic Research Park. (20 January 2017)


Dinosaurs attacking a jeep. (20 January 2017)


Ferocious dinosaurs in the outdoor park. (20 January 2017)


Menacing Velociraptors at the outdoor park of the Jurassic Research Center. (20 January 2017)


A family of Brontosaurus at actual size, in the outdoor park of the Jurassic Research Center. (20 January 2017)


A herd of Ceratosaurs at the outdoor park. (20 January 2017)

Our visit to the Jurassic Research Center

My wife and I visited the Jurassic Research Center on 20 January, 2017. We were guests of The TOP.

Timothy Tye & Goh Chooi Yoke at the Jurassic Research Center (20 January 2017)


Timothy Tye & Goh Chooi Yoke at the Jurassic Research Center (20 January 2017)


Timothy Tye & Goh Chooi Yoke at the Jurassic Research Center (20 January 2017)


Timothy Tye & Goh Chooi Yoke at the Jurassic Research Center (20 January 2017)

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