Exhibit - Dinoland November 28, 2008

When our prehistoric visitors arrive in Austin next fall, they will definitely feel right at home! Over 65 million years ago -- during the Cretaceous period — Austin’s Zilker Park was a beach shoreline on the Great Inland Sea. In 1992, amateur paleontologists were digging in a limestone quarry site at the back of Zilker Botanical Garden. They discovered the three-toed tracks of an ostrich-like dinosaur that had lived in our garden over 65 million years ago! Fast forward ten years…to the 2002 opening of the Hartman Prehistoric Garden, a two-acre, habitat filled with Cretaceous plants, gar-filled streams, reptiles, dragonflies, and butterflies who keep our resident, life-size Ornithomimus company. CompsognathusVisitors during the 3-month DinoLand Exhibit will travel back in time, coming face to face with thirty life-like dinosaur models of every shape and size. These prehistoric creatures will take up temporary residence along the new Escarpment Trail (near the Hartman Prehistoric Garden) being developed by PARD staff. From the fierce, 33-ft. Daspletosaur (cousin to the T-Rex) to a herd of tiny carnivores — Compsognathus (Compies in the movie, Jurassic Park) — these scientifically accurate dinosaur models were created by Guy Darrough, a renowned paleontologist, and owner of Lost World Studios (www.lostworldstudios.com). Guy’s dinosaurs have traveled to botanical gardens and nature centers around the country, but to only one other botanical garden in Texas — San Antonio Botanical Garden. When Dinosaurus Tex opened in 2002, it was “a watershed event”, receiving rave reviews from over 90,000 visitors. The exhibit was equally successful when it returned to San Antonio in 2005. Date: September 6 — November 30, 2008Cost: $5 for adults $3 for children(ages 3-13)