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The video showed the brace revealing Just Stop Oil T-shirts earlier being confronted by information staff.
Two clime alteration activists person been arrested aft attempting to signifier a protestation astatine a dinosaur exhibit.
The brace entered Herbert Art Gallery and Museum's Dippy the Diplodocus show successful Coventry astatine astir 10:00 BST.
A video released by run radical Just Stop Oil (JSO) showed them being tackled by information unit and led away.
West Midlands Police said 2 radical were held connected suspicion of conspiracy to origin transgression harm and "two ample bags of adust paint" had been seized.
The unit said "protest liaison officers" had remained astatine the depository to "keep radical harmless and bounds disruption to a minimum".
The video showed the antheral and pistillate revealing JSO T-shirts earlier being confronted by information staff.
One unit subordinate was shown seizing the man's rucksack, portion different tackled the woman, telling her to "stop it, halt it now. Do you understand?"
Image source, Just Stop Oil
Image caption,The brace were tackled by information unit earlier being led distant by police
JSO has described itself arsenic "a conjugation of groups moving unneurotic to guarantee the authorities commits to halting caller fossil substance licensing and production".
The 26-metre agelong (85ft) formed of a diplodocus skeleton began a three-year residency astatine the assemblage successful February and has proved hugely fashionable with visitors.
It was antecedently seen by much than 2 cardinal radical connected a UK circuit aft its 112-year enactment successful the Natural History Museum ended successful 2017.
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