Premium Content Subscriber only An extra 7000 visitors are expected to flock to the central west thanks to $4.9 million in new dinosaur exhibits at Winton. Tourism Minister Stirling Hinchliffe officially opened the Australian Age of Dinosaurs’ Dynamic Destination Project on Saturday, including Australia’s first International Dark Sky Sanctuary. “Some of the largest animals to have ever walked the Earth did so right here in Outback Queensland,” Mr Hinchliffe said. “Winton and Outback Queensland are some of the best places in the world to walk in the footsteps of dinosaurs.” The project includes two new, enormous replica sauropods, joining 39 life-size and lifelike dinosaur sculptures and seven bronze pterosaurs winged reptiles already at the Dinosaur Canyon area of the museum.