Monsters of the Sea exhibition opens

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00:00We've got 16 life-size animatronic marine animals from the dinosaur period.

00:12We can't call them dinosaurs because they were marine and aquatic, but it's from that age.

00:16People sometimes think that science and religion are enemies,

00:28but in fact it's just two ways of explaining the same thing.

00:31So I think it's a great thing.

00:33It also works in with our ecological and environmental concerns,

00:39thinking about our care of the oceans as well as our care of the Earth.

00:49Well, firstly, we have, I mean, animatronic sea monsters in a cathedral.

00:56I mean, one of the best cathedrals in England with animatronic sea monsters.

01:00I mean, I don't know what to say.

01:01It's just absolutely phenomenal because it just works so well together.

01:07The mix of these two elements is incredible.

01:19Usually the wow factor is pretty strong because people don't know exactly what to expect.

01:25We all know animatronic dinosaurs, but when you're talking about animatronic sea monsters,

01:29you don't know exactly what you might expect.

01:31And what you expect is just pretty huge monsters, animatronic, moving, sound.

01:36So very, very effective, very spectacular and with a strong educational theme as well

01:42because many people don't know, I didn't for a long time,

01:44that sea monsters were actually on Earth earlier than dinosaurs.

01:49So it's quite interesting to find out about that and find out so many details about this.