Careless employees and tourists are ruining priceless exhibits at the Natural Museum, including dinosaur fossils and bones of endangered species, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. The exhibits that needed repairs included a massospondylus, an early plant-eater that roamed the planet about 200 million years ago, a camarasaurus, another giant herbivore dating back 155 million years and a moeritherium, a prehistoric relative of the elephant that lived 37 million years ago. Skeletons of endangered species were also damaged by visitors, including tusks that were broken off a babirusa, a pig-deer found on just four Indonesian islands, by children playing around the exhibit.
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