Free iOS App Today: Walking with Dinosaurs: Inside their World

Written by Nathan Smith on September 2, 2014. Posted in iOS Apps, Mobile Apps.

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id486776260

Now universally available on all iOS devices (iPad and iPhone) – the world's most loved dinosaur app!

Revamped with better graphics, latest facts and improved gesture-based navigation, Walking with Dinosaurs: Inside their World is a revamped version of the original Inside the World of Dinosaurs, which won the 2012 Appy Award for Best Education App.

In this new version, BBC Worldwide and its BBC Earth team have collaborated with the original developer to bring this comprehensive interactive dinosaur encyclopedia to the iPad. The app, narrated by actor, writer and presenter Stephen Fry, contains more than 60 fully animated, interactive and photorealistic dinosaurs to engage and delight dinosaur fans of all ages. Every page contains information that has been meticulously researched by expert palaeontologists and each creature has been designed to create an unparalleled dinosaur experience on the iPad.  

Walking with Dinosaurs: Inside their World™ features:
– 280 fully interactive 3D models
– 60 expertly modeled, photorealistic dinosaurs, pterosaurs and reptiles
– 40 fully interactive 3D recreations of dinosaurs in mid-fight
– 200 pages worth of original text
– Hours of magical narration by Stephen Fry
– Animations and historical pictures
– 60 original dinosaur sounds
– Interactive 3D walking dinosaurs
– 15 pages of famous dinosaur hunters
– 22 pages of thoroughly researched articles on prehistoric life

Every dinosaur can be rotated the iPad screen with a swipe, allowing fans to closely study each detail such as skin texture and color. Breathtaking fight sequences can be viewed from any angle as the dinosaurs come to life with real sound and full animation. Some dinosaurs can be scrubbed backwards and forwards, so their walk cycle can be analyzed in detail. This comprehensive and magical app is a virtual A to Z encyclopedia of dinosaurs and will enthrall dinosaur fans of all ages!

Nathan Smith

Nathan Smith is Director of Technology for the College of Education and Human Services at Utah State University. In that role, he also directs The Adele & Dale Young Education Technology Center (The YETC) located in room 170 of the Education Building on Utah State University's Logan campus. The YETC is a combination student openaccess computer facility, a K12 curriculum materials library, a NASA Educator Resource Center for Utah, and a technology training center. Nathan served eight years (20042012) on the Board of Directors for the Utah Coalition for Education Technology (UCET) He was reelected in 2014 to serve another two year term on the board. A former elementary school teacher, Nathan has taught students every age from young children to senior citizens. He has had the opportunity beginning in 2011 to train international high school teachers from all over the world about technology in education, through the U.S. State