An interactive time travel journey through the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods at a seaside attraction that’s ‘educational entertainment at its best’In a nutshell
A unusual centre offering an interactive journey through pre-history (before written records). Your virtual guide is TT,a Victorian time traveller – in the shape of CBeebies presenter Rebecca Keatley – who takes visitors back millions of years and into the tropical waters that once covered this region. There are drawers to open and buttons to push, underwater caves to explore and marine costumes to try on; children can learn approximately weird ocean creatures (some extinct, and some very much alive) and the distinguished Bindon Landslide of 1839,which uncovered the secrets of Devon’s ancient past. Educational entertainment at its best.
Fun fact
Kids discover that shore crabs can regrow their legs if they snap off, that sea cucumbers fire sticky threads from their bottoms when scared, and that starfish push their stomachs out through their mouths to eat their prey.
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Source: theguardian.com