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January – Canned good Sundays (50% off admission with 2 canned goods per person each Sunday in January)   February – Sweetheart Special (adult only special – one adult sweetie free with a paid adult admission for Valentine's – valid Saturday, Feb 11th  to Tuesday, Feb 14th)   March – Teacher Month (Free Teachers every day in March with teacher ID)   April – Homeschool Month (Homeschool students and families receive $8 per person admission daily with homeschool ID)   May – Mom’s free on Mother’s Day (Mom receives free admission with a fully paid child admission)   June – Dad’s free on Father’s Day (Dad receives free admission with a fully paid child admission)   August – Double Dino Days (when you pay full admission price in August, you get a ticket to come back any day in December except Christmas Day)   September – $1 Day (Saturday, September 22nd -Kentucky location only)   October –     Dog Month (Bring your dog and get $2 off one fully paid admission per dog)     Fossil Day Friday thru Sunday, October 12 to 14 (special fossil prices in giftshop)     Free kids on Halloween (children ages 3-12 in costume receive free admission accompanied by fully paid adult on Halloween day - not valid for group admission)   November –     Grandparent’s Sundays (Grandparents receive a free admission with a fully paid child admission the first 3 Sunday’s in November)     Free Veterans on Veterans Day   December - Toy donation Sundays (50% off admission first 2 Sundays with new packaged toy)   Yearly – Free birthday admission for kids (ages 3-12 with proof of birthday)   *special events are not valid with other offers

• Kentucky donations are going to Kentucky Pathfinders
• Texas donations are going to The Pantry and More
• Florida donations are going to United Foodbank in Plant City

New dinosaurs added with expansion project
The Florida expansion is still underway with completion due in the next few months. The 12 new acres makes room for lots of new dinosaurs. These two new Euoplocephalus babies with their mom are enjoying the new acreage.  
 

The following article is titled "Museum's Worth Visiting" by Dr. John J. Bertalan of the University of South Florida / Schiller international University. It appeared in the Tampa Bay Fossil Club Newsletter
 
     On family and church trips to Orlando and the East Coast of Florida over the last ten years, I have speedily passed the colorful I-4 exit for Dinosaur World.  Although I have been curious, I have never interrupted my single-minded journeys to stop and explore.  However, one morning I was in Plant City for a food bank service project that I thought would take the entire day. The project ended at noon, so I headed straight for the highway exit where the giant T-Rex was lurking out of the woods.   
 
     I really did not know what to expect from Dinosaur World, but right from my initial entrance into the park, I was actually impressed with this min-version of Jurassic Park.  There was something to do for people of all ages and interests.  You enter into a large gift shop/ticket office with all sorts of real fossils and other items of interests.  From this beginning point there were about ten different venues from which you could start your adventure.  There is a fossil museum, a boardwalk stroll into an enchanted island, a video theater cave, a picnic area, a paleontological dig area, a playground, and a skeleton bone yard. Everything was identified in multi-educational levels from early childhood explanations to museum quality Latin paleontological descriptions. 
 
     You can leisurely or rapidly walk through the forests, caves, exhibits, museums, and jungles as your time or interest level allows.  I saw senior citizens meandering along the dinosaur laden paths, couples pushing children in strollers on the boardwalk or holding toddlers by the hand, and a bus load of school age students excitedly roaming around the park with their chaperons and guides.  Additionally, there were individuals eating lunch on picnic tables in a park-like setting.   
 
     A couple of times a day the park opens up the fossil sifting mine to young explorers.  I was the first in line, the last to leave and by far the oldest of the explorers.  I was only a little embarrassed when I came up for air and realized that most of the adults present were there to help their children and grand-children explore the mine, not sift for fossils themselves.  (Hey, I paid my admission fee and only kept the two allowed fossils!)
  
     I would recommend Dinosaur World to individuals of all ages.  There is enough to do that you can feel comfortable bringing children in diapers up to young adult age.  There was something labeled at all levels of educational attainment and the proprietors of the park seem genuinely interested in presenting accurate information about dinosaurs to the general public.  In several places they posted updates on their placards with the latest scientific results and findings.