Zoorassic Park: London Zoo goes back in time to welcome dinosaurs

London zoo today opened its latest animal attraction featuring the most colossal creatures to ever walk the earth - dinosaurs.

As well as paying a visit to the lions, gorillas and penguins, visitors to the Regent’s Park attraction will now come face-to-face with animals from 65 million years ago.

The new ZSL Zoorassic Park attraction includes about a number of life-sized, motorized dinosaurs that move and interact with visitors. Each is fitted with sensors, meaning they move, roar and even spit at human guests when they get up close.

On arrival to the attraction, families will be given their own passports and walk through a time tunnel that transports them back millions of years.

They will then meet dinosaurs including gentle giant the brachiosaurus, the towering tyrannosaurus rex and the horned triceratops. The armour-plated edmontonia - a tank-like dinosaur covered in spikes - and the flying pterodactyl are also in the attraction.

At the end, visitors will travel forward in time to 2050 to learn about the work ZSL’s conservationists are doing to stop today’s creatures becoming extinct like the dinosaurs.

Entry to Zoorassic Park, which opens on Saturday and will be open for six weeks, is included in the ticket price of the zoo.

This weekend, the zoo is also launching its summer sleepovers, meaning guests can stay overnight at the zoo and see the dinosaurs after hours.

The sleepovers will take place on various dates in the next two months - starting at 7pm and running until 10am in the morning. Prices start at £85 per person and include entrance to the zoo on the following day.

Visit zsl.org.