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Return of the Dinosaurs

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  • Date
    Sunday 1 March - Sunday 2 August 2020
  • Age
    All ages
  • Name
    Return of the Dinosaurs
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Journey back to prehistoric times and learn about the Jurassic giants who roamed the Earth.

Step back in time, between 245 and 66 million years ago, and learn about the huge dinosaurs that roamed the Earth.

Some of our favourite friends from the prehistoric era have joined us at Scitech!

Did you know which dinosaur is named after an Australian town? Or do you know why the Stegosaurus had bony plates along its back?

Come an a Jurassic adventure as we explore all things dinosaurs. Meet the King of the Cretaceous Period, get hands on with fossils, and discover which dinosaur brain is the size of a hotdog.

 

Meet the Dinosaurs

Come face to face with our moving and roaring animatronic dinosaurs — from the powerful, predatory T-Rex to the horned, herbivore Triceratops.

Kids looking at dinosaur

Dino Shadows

Roar and stomp your way to discovery in our shadow puppet show. Join Buster the boulder and T-Rex, as you look at fossils and learn about the different dinosaurs.

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Return of the Dinosaurs Details

  • Date
    Sunday 1 March - Sunday 2 August 2020
  • Location
    Explore Your World View Map
  • Age
    All ages
  • Name
    Return of the Dinosaurs
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Muttaburrasaurus

Muttaburrasaurus is named after Muttaburra, a town in central Queensland. This is where its remains were first found in 1963. It was a herbivore that lived 110-98 million years ago during the Middle Cretaceous Period. Muttaburrasaurus had very powerful jaws equipped with shearing teeth, as well as a horny beak for nipping at vegetation. It also had a large bump on its snout. This might have been used to produce distinctive calls, or for display purposes.

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Stegosaurus

Stegosaurus was a herbivore and had a toothless beak for nipping at plants. It lived in the Late Jurassic Period, about 155-145 million years ago in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah, in the USA. Stegosaurus has a reputation for having a small brain and one of the lowest-brain-to-body ratios among dinosaurs. It was long thought their brain was the size of a walnut, but scientists now believe it was the size and shape of a bent hot dog. It’s easy to recognise Stegosaurus thanks to the two distinctive rows of bony plates along its back. These plates made it appear to be larger and were also used to regulate its body temperature.

Two young girls patting an animatronic triceratops on the head,

Triceratops

Triceratops, with its three horns and bony frill around the back of its head, is one of the most recognisable dinosaurs. Part of the Ceratopsidae family, its name means ‘Three-horned face’. Triceratops’ distinctive bony frill was possibly used for defence, display or temperature regulation. Its horny beak was used for plucking plants.

A young girl and her mother smiling up at an animatronic Tyrannosaurus rex.

Tyrannosaurus

The biggest land predator of all time is Tyrannosaurus, whose name means ‘Tyrant lizard’. Tyrannosaurus’ were carnivores with a keen sense of smell, sight and sound. They fought
among themselves and were possibly cannibals. However, their tiny two fingered arms were far too small to reach their mouths. Tyrannosaurus had a massive head, and powerful jaws containing teeth that were up to 20 centimetres long with saw-like edges.

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Maiasaura

The name Maiasaura, means ‘Good Mother Lizard’ and comes from the Greek goddess Maia.
To emphasize this, the feminine form of saurus, which is saura was used. Its maternal name refers to the fact that a nesting colony of eggs, embryos and young animals were found. These showed that Maiasaura fed its young while they were in the nest, the first time such evidence was obtained for a dinosaur. Maiasaura nested in extremely large colonies with as many as 10,000 individual dinosaurs.
They also travelled in large herds, they did this to help protect each other.

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