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Dubai Dinosaur Park The question of what you do with a never-ending supply of cash has been answered. The extravagant, oil-rich City of Dubai (part of the United Arab Emirates or UAE) is building what may be the world's largest dinosaur theme park. Dubbed (or "Dubiad") Restless Planet, this domed play land promises to take visitors back at least 100 million years to a time when dinosaurs roamed freely. While no one's using amber-preserved dino DNA to recreate the bird and lizard ancestors, there will be lifelike animatronic dinosaurs created by the Tokyo-based Kokoro company. Vermisultude is being handled, it seems, by the Natural History Museum of London. I wonder if anyone associated with this project sees the irony: Dinosaurs died millions of years ago and their decaying bodies eventually helped create our oil reserves. Now those same reserves are funding the effort to bring dinosaurs back to life--sort of. While no park launch date exists on the City of Arabia site, Gizmodo is reporting a late 2008 park opening date.

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