Owning a pet pterodactyl is considered to be both a completely rewarding experience and fundamentally impossible. Attempt to outsmart extinction with admission to Dinosaur World in Plant City. Based on the explorers' ages, purchase one of the following Groupons:

• For $6, you get a ticket for adults age 13 and older (a $12.75 value).
• For $4, you get a ticket for children ages 3–12 (a $9.75 value).

Dinosaur World creates heart-thumping, cup-of-water-shaking exhibits with more than 150 life-sized beasts. Interwoven with tree-lined paths, these looming mammoths stand conveniently still for photographic moments and each provides a new nugget of prehistoric knowledge. Prospective paleontologists can face off against a life-sized stegosaurus at the skeleton graveyard or excavate the fossil-dig site ($2 for diggers 12 and older) for take-home trinkets including dino bone fragments, shark teeth, and fax machines. Work up an appetite touring Carnivore Boardwalk, take a break for an on-site picnic, or test the evolutionary endurance of any active toddler on the children's playground.

Reviews

DisneyFamily.com named Dinosaur World in Plant City an Editors' Pick. TripAdvisors give the attraction an average of 3.5 owl eyes:

• Kids don't have to be dinosaur fans to love this small park -- the enormity of the more than 150 life-sized dinosaurs spread throughout the park inspire wonder in visitors of all ages.– DisneyFamily.com
• My three year old son, who is seriously into dinosaurs, could not have had a better time. ¬– schmiecs, TripAdvisor