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Dinosaurs are in Your Backyard at the Milwaukee County Zoo’s “Adventure Dinosaur!”

Sponsored By Lowe’s

MILWAUKEE, WI — Have you ever seen a dinosaur? Would you like to? Starting May 29, and running through September 6, journey within an outdoor display of prehistoric wild plants and dinosaurs with “Adventure Dinosaur!” sponsored by Lowe’s.

See if you can count the number of large, finely serrated teeth on the Baryonyx’s crocodile-like jaws. Closely observe the skin of the Edmontosaurus, the only dinosaur to have skin impressions remaining until the current day. Edmontosaurus, Baryonyx, Styracosaurus, and Megalosaurus are four of the eight new-to-the-Zoo dinosaurs that can be found amongst the display of what life was like millions of year ago. These are just a few of the 29 life-size dinosaur recreations located at the Milwaukee County Zoo’s summer exhibit, “Adventure Dinosaur!”

The Zoo welcomes back the dinosaurs after a four-year hiatus. Crowd favorites of the touring exhibit of robotic dinosaurs will return: you can dodge the two-story-tall Tyrannosaurus rex with its child and nest full of babies, or get squirted with Dilophosaurus saliva that feels oddly enough like water. The figures are so “real,” moving and rumbling in their outdoor habitat, that it might be difficult to even believe that dinosaurs are extinct!

Break out your gloves, and embark on an expedition in a sand pit letting kids dig for the remains of dinosaurs today – their fossils!

Billings Productions in McKinney, Texas created the dinosaur models. Billings has been making robotic dinosaurs since 2003 to educate the public about prehistoric life. “From the educational aspect, there is a whole world of dinosaurs out there,” says Trey Billings, vice president of operations. “There are over 300 different species of dinosaurs (that we know about!) spanning a time frame of 165 million years. If you consider modern humans have been living for an estimated 200,000 years, dinosaurs lived in a time span 825 times greater than our own.”

“Adventure Dinosaur!” sponsored by Lowe’s, is open from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, and located outside the Small Mammal Building. The exhibit is $2.50 per person after regular Zoo admission.

For additional information, call the Zoo’s Public Affairs and Services Division at 414.256.5411.