Dinosaurs in the Wild: a palaeontologist's view

A new experience transports you back 67 million years to view time-travelling scientists studying dinosaurs in the wild

Where most efforts at "edutainment" fall down is on being overly bombastic, with too little actual science and far too much whizz-bang. But Dinosaurs in the Wild, a mixture of puppets, models and 3D films (all accompanied by live actors), merges the two brilliantly and is both fun for all ages and genuinely absorbing. It's also impossible to come away without learning a great deal about the world of the dinosaurs and how they lived.

The central conceit is simple but well presented - tourists are offered the chance to "travel back in time" to a working research lab in what are now the fossil-rich beds of Montana, but 67 million years ago was a location full of dinosaurs, including Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus and the colossal Alamosaurus among others. You get to move between various research stations and see dinosaurs being studied and lab work going on to learn about their biology and behaviour, and also see outside to dinosaurs in the wild.