They came, they saw, they brontosaurus then up and left… but now they’re back and we’re living again with dinosaurs.
It doesn’t take the release of Walking With Dinosaurs on Sunday, May 25 (BBC, 6.25pm) to release our inner Ross Geller… but it helps.
Ross, of course, plies his palaeontology out of the world-renowned American Museum of Natural History.
And devouring everything prehistoric (but not Ross’s sandwich) should be on your itinerary in New York.
Particularly when you need to occupy your overactive kids on a rainy (or sweltering) day in the Big Apple.
When you don’t even have to go overland, just hop out at the Subway Station and the doors are wide open for you.
A day and night at the museum
The Museum of Natural History (yes, that one out of Night At The Museum) is pay-what-you-want and you’ll want to big.
Now America’s rich prehistoric past is a counter to Yankaphobes who love falsely to point to the continent’s lack of history.
Despite dinosaur fans being able to walk in their footsteps coast to coast and everywhere in between.
Yale to Universal
We got a behind-the-scenes look at the free Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, Connecticut.
Which dinosaur fans know was where the velociraptor from Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park was born.
And where they are brought back to life through the wizardry of Universal in Orlando and Hollywood.
And you can get up close and personal to Dino.
A Dino’s graveyard
Of course, here on this British island of ours we pride ourselves on our BBC being free too, apart from the £174.50 licence fee.
And while you’re waiting to get out to Dinoworld you can travel to the four corners of the earth while not leaving your sofa.
Such as Pipestone Creek in Alberta, Canada, featured on the prog.
Nicknamed the ‘River of Death’, Pipestone Creek is home to a mass grave.
Thousands of Pachyrhinosaurus, each the size of an elephant, were buried here, killed in one day.
The Calgary is here
See the discoveries first hand at Philip J Currie Dinosaur Museum in Grande Prairie, where the bones are cleaned and analysed.
Tickets for adults (18+) cost from $15 CAD / £8.
Return flights (London to Calgary) cost from £570 pp with Delta.
Canadian Affair offers tailor-made trips to Grande Prairie and the rest of Alberta.
Alberta.
And a Dublin Zoorasic Party
While nearer to home our pals at Dublin Zoo are planning a Zoorasic Party takeover.
Hosted by Jurassic Park science advisor Dino Don Lessem.
The exclusive Zoorasic Trail Takeover ticketed events runs from June 26-29, on sale from tomorrow, May 23.
