Feathered dinosaurs from China visit the UK | Susannah Lydon

An exhibition including iconic - and infamous - feathered dinosaur specimens comes to Europe for the first time

Feathered dinosaurs are rarely out of the news and are a regular topic for our blog. For those in the UK, there's a rare opportunity to see some of the original feathered dinosaur specimens this summer in Nottingham.

The exhibition - Dinosaurs of China: Ground Shakers to Feathered Flyers - opened on 1 July at Wollaton Hall, home of the Nottingham Natural History Museum. The ground-shaking sauropod Mamenchisaurus, mounted 13.5m tall in a rearing pose, is a spectacular centrepiece. But, from a scientific perspective, it's the much smaller dinosaur specimens, from the 125-million-year-old Jehol biota, that are the real stars of the show.