Delirious for dinos!

Parks & Recreation, May, 2004

Cleveland residents may be in for a monster surprise--prehistoric beasts have come back to invade the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo!

Life-size dinosaurs will start stalking Waterfowl Lake on May 14 through September 12 giving visitors to the zoo something to roar about. Twenty "dino-rific" giants take the spotlight in two different exhibits. In "Sandstorm Struggle" a Velociraptor combats a Protoceratops, which is based on a fossil discovery where the dinosaurs' bodies were found together. Scientists speculate that they were both killed in a sandstorm.

In "Pterosaurs Family," three flying reptiles sit high in the trees. Although the creatures aren't members of the dinosaur family, they contributed to the ecosystem of prehistoric times.

The dinosaurs move and make sounds through electronics, air pistons and advanced animatronics. Other big beasts in the exhibit include a Triceratops, Allosaurus, Megalosaurus, Spinosaurus and many others.

In addition to just watching the dinosaurs, visitors can pretend to be paleontologists in "Dino Dig" or control their own animatronic T.Rex.

Admission to Dinosaurs! The Monster Comeback is $2 per person with regular zoo admission.