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Hours & Location | T-Rex Cafe in Lake Buena Vista, FL

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1676 E Buena Vista Dr,
Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830

(407) 828-8739

SUN – THU: 11:00 AM – 11:00 PM
FRI – SAT: 11:00 AM – 11:30 PM
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T-REX Cafe is a prehistoric family adventure! This interactive attraction includes a full-service restaurant with life-sized animatronic dinosaurs, woolly mammoths and simulated meteor showers, as well as an impressive Octopus Bar with moving tentacles and jellyfish, a dinosaur-themed retail store, and our interactive Paleo Zone—a kids play area with educational kiosks, our Discovery Dig fossil sandpit, and our Discovery Creek water mill where children can pan for precious gems, stones, and fossils.

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Dinosaurs on Baikal – E.N. Kuzevanova

The territory on the site of Lake Baikal 250 – 70 million years ago was a land elevated above sea level with a warm and humid climate. All natural conditions – subtropical vegetation, high air humidity and the presence of small and warm lakes – were favorable for the habitat of a wide variety of animals, including dinosaurs.

But scientists did not find traces of these animals in sedimentary rocks on the shores of Lake Baikal.

The remains of dinosaur skeletons were found only on the border of the Baikal rift zone – in Buryatia, in sedimentary rocks near Lake Gusinoe. These were parts of the skeleton of a predatory dinosaur – an allosaurus.

The length of the Allosaurus averaged 8.5 m. It moved on large and powerful hind legs, while its forelimbs were relatively small, with three large, curved claws. The massive upper body was balanced by a long, heavy tail. The remains of the skeleton of the same dinosaur were found elsewhere in Buryatia – in the deposits of the Tarbagatai coal deposit.

The southern part of the Baikal rift zone ends in Mongolia with the Khubsugul depression, where Lake Khubsugul is located.

And to the south-west of Khubsugul, in the Gobi desert, at some distance from the rift zone, burials of a huge number of dinosaurs were found.

Skeletons of such dinosaurs as Protoceratops, Velociraptor, Oviraptor, Tarbosaurus, Saurolophus were found there.

Skeletons of ancient crocodiles, shells of aquatic turtles were found. One of the first flying dinosaurs in Asia, the pterodactyl, was also discovered in Mongolia.

Dinosaur skeletons from the Gobi desert are in the National Museum of Natural History in Ulaanbaatar and in museums around the world. They are carefully collected and installed in expositions. Each find is given a description.

Tarbosaurus belongs to the group of tyrannosaurs – the largest carnivorous dinosaurs in the history of the Earth. Tarbosaurus means “terrible dinosaur” in translation. Indeed, it was a very large predator, a real terminator lizard!

The length of his body from the tip of the muzzle to the tip of the tail was about ten meters, and the size of his head was more than a meter in length, with a huge mouth studded with huge dagger-sharp teeth.

Powerful teeth allowed Tarbosaurus to cope even with such a dinosaur as protoceratops , whose head was covered with a powerful bone shell.

Pterodactyl was small compared to other dinosaurs. Its wingspan was only about one and a half meters, it ate fish, or even large insects.

Dinosaurs up to two meters long, with elongated jaws and sharp teeth – velociraptors – were good runners. They actively hunted small moving animals.

Mongolian Saurolophus was one of the largest herbivorous dinosaurs. Its height was 10-12 meters. The structure of the limbs and muzzle indicate that this animal fed on aquatic plants.

Another Mongolian dinosaur – oviraptor , with powerful legs and small forelimbs, with a large crest on the head and beak, in many ways resembled an ostrich. The dimensions of the oviraptor, compared with the tarbosaurus, were small – the body length reached only two meters.

Scientists have found a fossilized skeleton of this dinosaur on a clutch of eggs. At first, they thought that this dinosaur died trying to destroy the nest with the eggs of other dinosaurs. Therefore, the dinosaur was given the name Oviraptor, which means “the thief of eggs. ”

However, later, with the help of modern technology, it was possible to examine the embryos inside these fossilized eggs, and it turned out that these were the embryos of the oviraptor itself.

Therefore, he did not destroy the eggs, but hatched his offspring, as a hen hatches chickens! It should be noted that almost all dinosaurs, including huge predators, laid eggs to breed.

Fossilized imprints of various plants, mollusks, fish, small lake dwellers were also found in Mongolia and Buryatia. Based on these remains, scientists have restored the natural and climatic conditions at the site of the Baikal rift zone 250-70 million years ago.

It was a lake district with a subtropical climate, diverse vegetation and full-flowing rivers.
Shallow waters were covered with thickets of swamp cypresses. Horsetails, club mosses, and araucaria grew on the coasts. Groves of ginkgo trees grew green on the hills. The first flowering plants, magnolias, were quite widespread.

Thus, the probability that dinosaurs lived on the site of the Baikal Rift Zone hundreds of millions of years ago is very high. Dinosaur skeletons could not have been preserved, because sedimentary rocks were destroyed during the formation of mountains, numerous faults in the earth’s crust during the formation of the Baikal basin. And the valleys of Baikal’s tributaries, in which some traces of animals of that era could have been preserved, formed much later.

Science knows that about 65 million years ago, changes took place on Earth that led to the extinction of dinosaurs. Scientists have come to the conclusion that the cause of their extinction is a consequence of an asteroid falling to Earth in the Gulf of Mexico.

Tree-like plants that grew on the territory of present-day Baikal 70 million years ago

Quite possibly, finds of dinosaurs in the Baikal region are still waiting for future scientists who are now sitting at school desks. Such finds can be, for example, in the valley of the Angara River, where imprints of plants were found in sedimentary rocks, the age of which coincides with the age of the dinosaur era.

Glossary

Allosaurus – carnivorous dinosaur, 8.5 m long.

Protoceratops is a herbivorous dinosaur, up to 2 m long, with a large head covered with a powerful shell with sharp growths that protect against predators.

Tarbosaurus – a dinosaur moving on powerful hind limbs, up to 10 m tall, belongs to the group of tyrannosaurs – the largest predatory dinosaurs.

Oviraptor is a medium-sized dinosaur with powerful legs, resembling an ostrich in appearance.

Velociraptor is a predatory dinosaur, up to 2 m high, very mobile, with long jaws and sharp teeth.

Saurolophus is one of the largest herbivorous dinosaurs, up to 10-12 m tall.

Swamp cypress is a large coniferous tree with thick bark that grows in swamps and along river banks.

Ginkgo tree is the oldest representative of treelike plants.

Araucaria is a tree-like coniferous plant that has survived to this day.

Magnolia is one of the most ancient flowering plants, widely distributed today.

Source: E.N. Kuzevanova, V.N. Sergeev, Baikal studies. Baikal from ancient times to the present day. — Irkutsk, 2014

MUTANTS OF THE BAIKAL DEPTH

G OLOMYANKA

The first more or less reliable information about Baikal and its unprecedented fish kingdom, as is known, was received from the first explorers. They were struck by the depth of the Siberian Sea, its crystal-clear waters, abounding in large fat sturgeon, numerous omul, whitefish and grayling… The Golomyanka, a fish found nowhere else, was first described by Peter Pallas in 1771-1772 from several specimens thrown ashore. “Moreover, if there is something rare, and only found in Baikal, then a fish, which the Russians call a kolomenka; it appeared here not very long ago, although there is not the slightest doubt that it was there before, only they did not notice it. It is in itself as hard as a piece of bacon, and justly so fat that if you fry it, only the spinal vertebrae will remain, and everything else will blur. She never gets on the net, and she has never been seen alive. Here, not without probability, they conclude that it is kept in the deepest Baikal abysses only, which have been explored in the middle and on the northern stone side … Whatever the reasons were in the sea, which would drive this fish to the surface, no one can say. Usually it is thrown out by strong weather from the upland side, in the summer most to the Posolsky Monastery and to Ust-Selenga. It is not uncommon to see her after great storms, where she floats on the surface in great herds, and in some years she was thrown out so much that they lay on the shore in a shaft, then the coastal inhabitants had a fair amount of profit from them to melt fat and sell to the Chinese … ”

However, it was not this description that surprised the world. During one of the expeditions, Benedikt Dybowski discovered that golomyankas are viviparous. The discovery literally excited the scientific world. Many scientists reacted to the message of the embassy naturalist with distrust – after all, it was generally recognized that only fish in tropical waters “give birth”, in temperate latitudes and in the north, fish spawn. How did this strange fish get into the cold waters of Lake Baikal? Later, Baikal researchers found out that two species of golomyanka live in Baikal – the small golomyanka and the big golomyanka. Moreover, both of these species are of local (autochthonous) origin and formed in the Baikal waters about two million years ago. The big and small golomyankas have some differences. For example, an adult small golomyanka remains transparent – the spine and blood vessels are visible through the skin. The big one becomes whitish, opaque. Most likely, the matter is in different amounts of fat – the big golomyanka has seven times more fat, up to 44% of body weight. Limnologists have found that the golomyanka can make vertical movements during the day to maximum depths. These fish do not spend energy on chasing food, but easily “soar” in the water column. A quick reaction allows them to instantly grab close-swimming crustaceans or their own fry. Despite the fact that this fish leads a solitary life, not straying into schools, the golomyanka makes up a huge percentage of the biomass of all fish in Baikal (about 200 thousand tons!). Baikal is great and amazing – a unique ecological system, a small freshwater ocean, the depths of which, as can be seen from the wonderful golomyanka fish, live-bearing fish, are still full of mysteries and discoveries.

DID DINOSAURS LIFE ON BAIKAL?

In the area of ​​Lake Gusinoye, in the Carboniferous deposits of the Mesozoic era, the remains of dinosaurs were found. But to say that dinosaurs lived on Baikal is not entirely correct – it would be more accurate to say that dinosaurs lived in the area of ​​modern Baikal. The fact is that Baikal appeared much later after the dinosaurs everywhere disappeared from the face of the Earth. The end of the era of dinosaurs – the Mesozoic – 65 million years ago. The appearance of Baikal, according to various sources, from 20 to 30 million years ago. Dinosaurs have not been found in the immediate vicinity of Lake Baikal. The reason for this was the serious damage and change in the morphology of the Mesozoic sedimentary rocks during the powerful tectonic activity that led to the formation of Baikal. What dinosaurs lived in the Baikal region? First of all, these were sauropods – giant herbivorous dinosaurs, typical representatives of which are brontosaurus, diplodocus and brachiosaurus. It is to this detachment that the largest known dinosaurs belong – the seismosaurus and the supersaurus, reaching a length of 40 meters and weighing up to 50 tons. These were the largest land animals in the history of the Earth. There were also predators in these places, for example, rather large allosaurs and other theropods. Part of the deposits to the west of Baikal testifies to the existence there in the ancient pre-Baikal period of a huge warm salty sea with many ancient marine organisms.

BEASTS OF BAIKAL

The first evidence of the discovery of a huge inhabitant in the Mukhorsky Bay, the area of ​​​​Olkhon Island and the Small Sea Strait, appeared at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1905, the merchant of the first guild, Danila Uhvatov, was transporting cattle along the Mukhorsky Bay to the island of Olkhon. One of the horses, due to the strong pitching, fell overboard. They tried to pull the animal out of the water, but an unknown force pulled the horse to the bottom. A few minutes later, pieces of meat and a horse’s head floated to the surface of the water. The nearest cape of the island from this place has since been called Mare’s Head.

After the Second World War, Japanese prisoners of war who worked near the village of Chernorud began to notice the disappearance of people. The prisoners carried water to the mine, the bodies of some of them were found literally torn in half on the shore of the bay. Since the activities of these people had a special regime, these incidents remained a secret for a long time. An interesting fact is that the indigenous inhabitants of Baikal consider the Mukhorsky Bay sacred. And this is one of the ancient places of origin of Shamanism. You can’t mention this place in a conversation. You can not look in the direction of the bay during the day. Once a year, on the darkest and moonless night, the locals put their game, livestock meat and fish on rafts and floated the rafts across the bay. So they paid tribute to their deity. One has only to guess in what form this deity was dressed. For a long time, the shores of the bay remained deserted. This is the reason for the preservation of untouched, pristine nature. And today, the presence in the bay of a huge, similar to a log with cones, protrusions, creatures is confirmed. According to local residents, the monster appears on the surface of the water at night and makes characteristic hissing sounds that turn into gurgling. It is under these circumstances that the loss of livestock arriving at the watering place is noted.

Local fishermen say that since recently, people who go fishing have disappeared without a trace, and then their torn bodies have been found. This is understandable, because the creature (monster) has an unusually large size. This is confirmed by the captain of the fishing vessel Dmitry Vedernikov. When on one of the flights, the crew of the ship felt a strong rocking of the ship, with a characteristic hiss and gurgling from the water. At the same time, the sea was absolutely calm. It seemed that some huge animal was scratching its back on the keel of the ship. Is this a myth or reality? What type of living creatures does the Baikal inhabitant belong to? Or maybe it’s an alien creature? According to a well-known scientist, a leading specialist in the study of the Baikal fauna, Dr. Semenov A.A. :

“All these events may have a real basis. Most likely, the Mukhora monster belongs to a relic and as yet unexplored species of amphibious reptiles in appearance resembling a cross between a crocodile and an ancient ichthyosaur, oriented to eating flesh (predator).