Tehran’s Jurassic Park

The moving dinosaurs’ park is an educational, touristic and recreational place located in Sa’adatabad, Tehran. As the first theme park of the capital, it’s considered as a park with different species of moving dinosaur sculptures in real size, with sound and special effects. It came into operation early Esfand 1992(2013).The total area is 30000 square meters and displays 28 moving dinosaurs’ sculptures.

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The dinosaurs’ scientific names are shown as well as the way they lived and ate. These dinosaurs are designed so naturally that they can blink and move their hands and feet. Also there is a baby dinosaur coming out of its egg and going into it again. The term” Jurassic park “was first used by Michael Crichton, who was a doctor and writer, as the title of his novel in 1990. Steven Spielberg made a film based on it in 1993. After that dinosaurs park museums called “Jurassic park” were built around the world in important cities like: Warsaw, Havana, Los Angeles and Kiev.

Different sections of the park

Birds and mammals part involves 6 salons on:
1. Snakes and stags
2. North American brown bear
3. Birds
4. Dears , rams, pheasants, bears, panthers, jackals, foxes and wolves
5. Africa’s mammals
6. Aquatic animals and reptiles
Geology division has two salons in which characteristics of different geological periods are depicted in terms of animals and plants environments.
One of its special features is it has live animals part, which includes animals like: birds, reptiles and amphibians, aquatic animals, mammals and specially large cats and dead ones section in which there is the skin of the rare Mazandaran’s tiger, which has become extinct now; its skin samples were sent to the US to be analyzed genetically complying with the international regulations.
Two of the most rare and beautiful mammals which are becoming extinct, the Iranian zebra and Asian panther, are also demonstrated there.