A unique dinosaur experience is coming to life across Victoria.
Four encounters within specially-created natural habitats are open at Melbourne Zoo, Werribee Open Range Zoo, Healesville Sanctuary, and Kyabram Fauna Park.
Visitors can meet the prehistoric reptiles free with zoo admission until the end of the winter school holidays on 14 July.
At Melbourne Zoo, venture along paths not normally open to visitors to discover 16 huge dinosaurs, their nests, and newly-hatched young.
For budding palaeontologists, there’s the chance to uncover a fossil in the sandpits under the watchful eye of a mighty tyrannosaurus rex.
At Werribee Open Range Zoo, journey through time and embark on an Indiana Jones-inspired prehistoric adventure.
Expect the unexpected and let your imagination run wild as you encounter 14 dinos, smoking volcanoes, bubbling swamps, dino footprints, and life-like dino fossils.
Healesville Sanctuary’s bushland nature trail is home to 16 roaming dinosaurs, and 15 prehistoric beasts have taken up residence at Kyabram Fauna Park.
The dinosaurs will be roaming in a newly-created area of the parkland, and visitors will have the opportunity to make a discovery in the fossil dig sandpit.
In an Australian first, Dinos at the Zoo provides unprecedented access to the deaf and hard-of-hearing community.
Expression Australia partnered with Zoos Victoria to create videos in Auslan to provide information on every exhibit, accessible via QR code.
Expression Australia CEO Rebecca Adam hopes the QR code activation will set a new benchmark for inclusion.
“We are very proud to have created a pathway for our community to have equal opportunity to learn about the Dinos at the Zoo through their primary language and truly immerse themselves in the experience,” she said.
Zoos Victoria CEO Dr Jenny Gray hoped Dinos at the Zoo would inspire visitors to help prevent other species from becoming extinct.
Children aged under 16 years enjoy free zoo entry to Werribee Open Range Zoo, Melbourne Zoo, Healesville Sanctuary, and Kyabram Fauna Park on weekends, Victorian school holidays,
and public holidays.
