If you’re thrilled at seeing dinosaurs, put Tulsa on your vacation map. The Tulsa Zoo, 6421 E. 36th St. North, has hatched a Zoorassic Park for a year of prehistoric proportions. The park will feature 15 animatronic dinosaurs, including 11 different species, daily through Oct. 31.

A 400-foot-long Tyrannosaurus rex, a top-level predator with serrated teeth and a strong tail, will be featured. Then there’s the Brachiosaurus, a dinosaur that has a long neck and may have consumed more than 400 pounds of food a day. Another is the Stegosaurus, an herbivore known for the plates on its back.

They can all gnash their teeth, roar and even spit water.

Young paleontologists will take a mini-excavation to dig for fossils and you might even spot a dinosaur nest full of eggs on zoo grounds.

Admission to this special exhibit is $5 per person with regular zoo admission or $4 per person for members. For information, visit www.tulsazoo.org/roar.

Dinosaurs at BOK Arena

If you’re really, truly interested in dinosaurs, head for Tulsa again Nov. 11 or 12 for Walking With Dinosaurs – The Arena Spectacular at Tulsa’s BOK Arena. Based on the award-winning BBC television series, there will be three performances. Tickets are on sale now.

The show features life-size beasts and reflects recent discoveries about the physical nature of these massive creatures. Dinosaurs will interact and illustrate how they evolved to walk on two legs and how the herbivores fended off their more agile predators.

Ten species are represented from the entire 200-million-year reign of the dinosaurs. The show includes the Tyrannosaurus rex, terror of the ancient terrain. It will also feature the Plateosaurus and the Liliensternus from the Triassic period, the Stegosaurus and the Allosaurus from the Jurassic period and the Torosaurus and Utahraptor from the awesome Cretaceous period.

This show has been “walking” abroad and will return to the U.S. in July, including Tulsa.

For information, visit www.dinosaurlive.com. Tickets are priced from $59.50 to $29.50.

Downtown action

Urban Neighbors is the name of the new downtown neighborhood association and it’s getting active with a wine dinner at Urban Johnnie Bar & Grille, 121 NE Second St., at 6 p.m. June 30. RSVP to Chris Hewitt at chewitt@cox.net.

Urban Johnnie is on the south side of the Level Urban Apartments, next door to Native Roots Market.