Adventure Dinosaur!
Sponsored by Lowe’s
May 29 – Sept. 6, 2010 daily (opens 9:30 a.m.)
$2.50 per person exhibit admission
(Free admission for Zoological Society members June 4-6 with Zoo Pass card & photo ID, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.)
Next to the Small Mammals Building
What did dinosaurs eat? Some ate plants, others feasted on smaller dinos, but the Therizinosaurus probably ate insects! Paleontologists think this “scythe lizard” may have used its 8-foot-long-clawed arms to tear open insect nests. You can see a moving replica of this “insectivore” and 28 other dinosaurs at the Milwaukee County Zoo’s special summer exhibit. If bugs aren’t your thing, other dinos had different diet plans. You could say the carnivorous Megalosaurus would have preferred the Atkins diet, while the plant-eating Kentrasaurus would have been a vegetarian.
Get a real-life peek inside a dino belly when you see the Deinonychus. Part of this model is left unfinished so you can see its wires and activate them by pressing buttons on a control pad. After viewing the exhibit, choose whether you’re a herbivore or carnivore and feast at one of the Zoo’s 11 concessions areas.
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