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Giant Mysterious Dinosaurs provides an up-close look at gigantic dinosaur skeletons and fossils from around the globe — many rarely seen in this country. (Photo by Darryl Moran courtesy Franklin Institute)

Starting tomorrow, Saturday, December 10, the Franklin Institute will be taken over by some of the largest and strangest dinosaur specimens ever unearthed.

The exhibition, titled Giant Mysterious Dinosaurs, features two dozen gigantic skeletons from around the world, full-sized robotics and an opportunity for guests to dig for and handle genuine fossils.

The spectacular collection belongs to the world’s leading dinosaur collector and popularizer, Don Lessem. Philadelphia’s own “Dino” Don has excavated and re-created dinosaurs from Argentina to Mongolia.

He was advisor to the movie Jurassic Park, so clearly no one knows dinosaurs like Don does.

On display will be exotic dinosaurs from the farthest reaches of Patagonia and the Gobi Desert, skeletons as long as 70 feet, the largest dinosaur bone ever discovered, a five-foot tall back bone of the 100-ton Argentinosaurus as well as a two-foot long claw from a mysterious carnivore from Mongolia.

Get tickets online.

Check out a few more sneak peek photos of the exhibition, below.

Giant Mysterious Dinosaurs at the Franklin Institute
When: December 10-April 15
Where: 222 N. 20th Street
Cost: Daytime tickets: $25 for Adults, $18.50 for children (ages 3-11). Evening tickets (Friday/Saturday nights): $10 for Adults, $6 for children.
More info: www.fi.edu

Meet Mamenchisaurus, the longest-necked animal that ever lived. (Photo by Darryl Moran courtesy Franklin Institute)

You can actually touch what dinosaur skin felt like, just in like the Franklin Institute's hands-on Mummies exhibition. (Photo by Darryl Moran courtesy Franklin Institute)

Puzzle over the unicorn spike on the school-bus sized duckbilled dinosaur Tsintaosaurus. (Photo by Darryl Moran courtesy Franklin Institute)

Previously: Tickets Now On Sale For The Franklin Institute’s Latest Marquee Exhibition Giant Mysterious Dinosaurs, Featuring Dozens Of Exotic Skeletons