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Did pigeons descend from T-Rex? Find out at the newest IMAX film, Dinosaurs Alive!, now screening daily at Balboa Park’s Reuben H. Fleet Science Center. Presenting the latest paleontological findings from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert and the buttes of Ghost Ranch, New Mexico—two major hotbeds (literally!) for fossil hunting—Dinosaurs Alive! attempts to uncover the missing link between the largest and most powerful creatures ever to roam the Earth and our lighter-than-air feathered friends.

A number of things make this 50-minute film more engaging than the many dinosaur docs shown on the Discovery Channel every day. First, it’s narrated by an old dinosaur in his own right, Michael Douglas. Second, it interweaves ultra-realistic and scientifically accurate CGI footage of dinosaurs fighting, hunting, and nesting (like birds) with scenes of real-life excavations on some of the most unforgiving and isolated terrain on the planet. And lastly, unlike the Jurassic Park film, it doesn’t lean on the afore mentioned “popular” dinosaurs like T-Rex to generate mass appeal. Rather, it highlights rarely seen and relatively obscure ones like the equally menacing Tarbosaurus, the diminutive Coelphysis, and various feathered dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs aren’t your thing? Then grab a date and let the IMAX experience immerse you in other visually stunning environments currently featured:

The Alps – Join an intrepid mountaineer as he takes on perilous avalanches and breathtaking scenery to make peace with the mountain that killed his father. (though Oct. 4)

Coral Reef Adventure – Get up close with the vast array of unusual creatures that inhabit coral reefs around the world and see how everyday heroes are helping to save the endangered reefs.