Dinosaurs In Manchester

DINOSAUR lovers can get hands on with the biggest predator to ever walk the earth when BBC Learning brings its Planet Dinosaur tour to Manchester.

BBC Learning has teamed up with museums and science centres to embark on a 56-date UK tour throughout October and November.  The free tour comes to Manchester Museum from 1-9 October.

The tour accompanies the new BBC One series, showcasing these extraordinary creatures to a new generation of dinosaur lovers and encouraging audiences to take their own investigative journey into the fascinating world of pre-history and palaeontology.

The dinosaur experience will give budding palaeontologists the chance to build a large-scale 3D reproduction of Spinosaurus, the largest ever known land predator. They will also be able to learn more about the new dinosaur discoveries in the TV series, gain an understanding of the role of palaeontologists, explore the links between Spinosaurus and other dinosaurs, and discover when dinosaurs lived and how their time-line relates to human evolution.

Planet Dinosaur airs on BBC One at 8.30pm on Wednesdays and is repeated on Sundays at 4.15pm.

BBC Learning also wants families to continue their dinosaur experience online by visiting www.bbc.co.uk/dinosaur where there is more information and clips from the tv series, lots of dinosaur facts and figures and a printable dinosaur wall chart.