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SIN: Changi Jurassic Mile <YOU ARE HERE!>
SIN: Changi Beach Club [Before COVID-19]
SIN: Village Hotel Changi [Before COVID-19]
In a bid to clock way more than 10,000 steps for the day, I decided to start from somewhere at East Coast Park. It was my first time walking all the way to the eastern side of the park.
I laughed at the sign put up in front of NSRCC Sea Sports Centre. Probably they've seen too many people walking the wrong way, thinking that the entrance would lead to Changi Jurassic Mile.
I knew I was on the right track when I saw the first dinosaur sign, though the destination is still quite a distance away from that spot.
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| I recall Stegosaurus being my most favourite kind when I was a little boy. |
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| Changi Airport Connector was first opened to the public on 11 October 2020. |
After crossing Tanah Merah Coast Road, you can get a view of the construction of Terminal 5 of Changi Airport, which is projected to be completed in the 2030s.
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| It's just another 900 m to reach Changi Jurassic Mile after crossing the road. |
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| How many species of dinosaurs can you identify? |
Welcome to Singapore's Jurassic Park!
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The T-Rex hologram not only welcomes, but also also warns you of what's ahead.
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| The wall along the path is decorated with lots of signs. |
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| You won't see any herd though. There are at most two or three of the different species. |
Hub & Spoke near Terminal 2 of Changi Airport has got a café, a bicycle rental shop and pay-per-use shower facilities.
As you can see, the shared path is quite narrow. It wasn't so crowded that afternoon when the sun was shining so very brightly that gave me some tan lines.
Apatosaurus is known to be the largest land animal to ever roam on Earth.
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| Since it's the Christmas season, some of the exhibits are decorated with lights. |
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| Reaching a height of 4.6 m and a length of 26 m, an adult weighed about 18,000 kg. |
Parasaurolophus is known for its bizarre head adornment that could produce acoustic resonance and regulate body temperature.
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| They walked as both a biped and a quadruped. |
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| They used to live in what's now North America and possibly parts of Asia around 75 million years ago. |
Literally meaning 'roofed lizard', Stegosaurus is named by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1877. The American palaeontologist thought that the overlapping plates, when laid flat, looked like shingles on a roof.
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| It's doing an advertisement for the nearby Tanah Merah Country Club by carrying its flag. |
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| They also had spikes on their tails, which could grow up to 1.2 m in length. |
The next dinosaur display is a few minutes away.
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| Those baby Pterodactyls look like they're ready to sing Christmas carols. |
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| Do you usually do Christmas gift exchange? |
Brachiosaurus had a very long neck, allowing it to lift its head as high as 12 m.
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| It's drinking water from a golf course pond. |
Meet the carnivorous T-Rex, which is estimated to have exerted the strongest bite force among all terrestrial animals!
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| T-Rex could run up to 24 km per hour, which is the average sprinting speed for many athletes. |
Fancy taking a photo with a baby T-Rex that has just hatched from the egg?
Contrary to their depiction in the movies and the models there, velociraptors are predicted to be feathered carnivores.
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| It appears that there are no descriptions whatsoever on the velociraptors. |
The armored Ankylosaurus had a club-like bone at the tip of its tail to protect itself against a predator or possibly another of its kind when competing for limited resources.
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| One looks angry, while the other looks happy. |
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| Ankylosaurus was among the last dinosaur genera that appeared before the mass extinction. |
Bearing three horns on its skull, Triceratops is one of the most recognisable of all dinosaurs. In 1927, Charles R. Knight painted a mural incorporating a confrontation between T-Rex and Triceratops in the Field Museum of Natural History for the National Geographic Society, establishing them as enemies in the popular imagination.
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| More recent interpretations find it probable that the horns were primarily used in species identification, courtship and dominance display, rather than for protection against predators. |
Despite the blazing sun, it was pretty fun looking at the various exhibits.
Originally, there was no safety netting installed along the path. However, incidents involving stray golf balls from the nearby Tanah Merah Country Club had prompted it to be put up for the safety of visitors.
There are two adult Pterodactyls, each guarding one end of the path.
At the point of writing, operations at Terminal 4 of Changi Airport are suspended indefinitely in view of the very small number of flights than usual due to COVID-19. The affected airlines are temporarily moved to Terminals 1 and 3.
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| I'm still thinking whether to go for Dino Fest, a carnival held at Terminal 4 till 27 December 2020. |
Dino Kart, anyone? The first ever airport go-kart experience runs until 31 December 2020.
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| This is totally random, but those coloured tires make me think of Fruit Loops. |
The path is open 24 hours. As of 2 November 2020, prior booking is no longer required to enter the premise.
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