Players can get up close and personal with Earth's most fascinating former inhabitants as Microsoft Game Studios and Blue Fang Games today announced Zoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals. Thebiggest expansion pack to date for the Zoo Tycoon 2 franchise will be available for the PC this fall.

Introducing 30 new animals and more than a dozen dinosaurs, ranging from the adorable dodo bird and massive American mastodon to the saber-toothed cat and T. rex, Zoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals provides new ways for players to experience the award-winning gameplay of Zoo Tycoon 2. Aspiring zoologists will be challenged to dig for fossils, bring animals that once roamed the earth thousands of years ago to life in the Extinct Research Lab, and wrangle a pack of dinosaurs with a tranquilizer gun.