Dino Days! Cal Academy San Francisco

Dino Days! at California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park is a must see, and fun for everyone one in the family.

Outdoors in the East and West Gardens are thirteen animatronic dinosaurs that move and roar, including a huge T-Rex.

The dinosaurs are labeled with all sorts of fascinating information.

For example, how did Parasaurolophus lay eggs, how tall was Brachiosaurus, what big herbivore was dinner for the carnivores, a dinosaur with feathers, why the Parasaurolophus blue head is shaped the way it is, dinosaur that probably caught fish with its claws. And of course, how did the huge Tyrannosaurs rex eat with its strong jaws and dagger-like teeth?

Little kids can can wear paper dinosaur hats and dig in sand for fossils. There’s a complete skeleton of a dinosaur to discover.

Older kids will enjoy meeting paleontologists who work at Cal Academy and find out about latest dinosaur research.

Here’s a selection of dinosaurs to see in the gardens.