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Things to know: Dallas World Aquarium

Hours: September 6-February 28: 10a.m. until 5p.m.

March 1-September 5: 9a.m. until 5p.m.

 

Admission Price: Adults-$20.95

Children (3-12)-$12.95

Seniors (60 & older)$16.95

 

  • The entire inside (and outside) of the aquarium is decorated to look like a tropical rainforest, complete with tropical plants and walkways disguised to look like forest paths.
  • In addition to fish, sea animals, and amphibians, the aquarium also has monkeys, birds, sloths, snakes, and a jaguar.
  • The trip through the aquarium starts at the top, with birds and monkeys that live in the rainforest canopy, and moves down through the layers of the rainforest all the way to the seafloor .
  • The sloth exhibit has no enclosure. And if you were tall enough you could touch the sloth, though you would probably get escorted from the premises if you did.
  • There is a 40-foot tunnel through a large tank where visitors can watch sharks and other fish swim above and around them.
  • The Dallas World Aquarium has more than 85,000 gallons of saltwater to house their aquatic life.
  • The aquarium has the only public display of a three-toed sloth and Antillean manatees in the U.S.
  • The aquarium also has the only water opossum in captivity in the world.
  • Walking through the entire aquarium and rainforest takes between 1 and 2 hours.
  • The indoor landscape includes a 40-foot waterfall.
  • The aquarium has a preservation project that protects green sea turtles.
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In the beginning, Meridan Cavanaugh could not talk, walk, read or write. Now, sixteen years after her parents made up her unpronounceable name, she has overcome these obstacles and risen above her initial uselessness. A part of choir, theater and sometimes newspaper, she is involved in only the coolest programs of the school. She enjoys singing and playing piano, bass guitar, ukulele and harmonica, and will play the intro to Billy Joel's “Piano Man” for you until your ears bleed. Also, she is always listening to music from an alarmingly wide range of genres and is a condescending music snob. A cinephile from a very young age, she has vowed to watch every film on the “1000 Films to Change Your Life” list before she dies, which is a tall order for a mere mortal, but she, having gained immortality in a battle of wits with Socrates, will have no issue completing it. Some of her other life goals are to join the South African Extreme Ironing team, go to a Rage Against the Machine or Beastie Boys concert, and high five James Franco. Meridan moved here from Connecticut in eighth grade and while she misses trees, hills of any kind, and seasons, she has grown to love the people and low sales tax here.

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