AN exhibition focusing on an acclaimed TV series about dinosaurs is coming to the North-East.

BBC TV's Walking with Dinosaurs attracted 19 million viewers in this country and has been broadcast in 45 countries.

Newcastle's Hancock Museum is staging Walking with Dinosaurs: The Exhibition, for five months.

The display features models and fossils used in the series, including full-size casts of dinosaur skulls, a 23ft skeleton of a plateosaurus and a 15ft juvenile diplodocus.

Visitors will be able to see how the models were made using the latest computer graphics, and look at footage from the series and take part in interactive activities.

Curator Steve McLean said: "Visitors should prepare for a fantastic look at the world of dinosaurs as well as intriguing glimpses into the state-of-the-art technology used to create the series.''

The exhibition opens next Saturday and runs until Sunday, February 24. The museum is open Mondays to Saturdays, 10am to 5pm, and 2pm to 5pm on Sundays.