Last Chance to Meet ROM’s Newly Discovered Dinosaur Zuul

Wednesday, 24 April 2019 10:23.AM

The Royal Ontario Museum’s (ROM) orginal exhibition Zuul: Life of an Armoured Dinosaur, presenting sponsor Sinking Ship Entertainment, wraps up on Monday, May 20, 2019. Time is running out for visitors to travel back 76 million years on a journey into the Late Cretaceous world of Zuul – the world-renowned, newly named ankylosaur from the ROM.

Visitors of all ages have been in awe of the massive and remarkably preserved fossils of Zuul since December 15, 2018, when it went on public display for the very first time. Through cutting-edge animations, engaging video games and digital interactives, Zuul: Life of an Armoured Dinosaur explores how this mighty dinosaur, bristling with armour and a menacing tail club, lived.

Touchscreens let visitors rotate 3D views of Zuul’s original fossil pieces, while life-size touchable bronze models of Zuul’s skull, armour, skin, and tail club allow visitors to feel what it would have been like to touch the living dinosaur.

Presenting Sponsor Sinking Ship Entertainment worked with the ROM’s exhibition team to help bring the experience to life for visitors through a series of cutting-edge games and activations. With ground-breaking CGI technology, visitors experience a faceoff between the plant-eating Zuul and its main predator, Gorgosaurus, a close cousin of T.rex. Visitors also experience what it would be like to be an ankylosaur with an arcade-style fighting game that sees Zuul using its tail club and armour to duel various opponents, as well as a Kinect-technology carnival-like game where participants can take a swing at Zuul’s wicked tail club.