IT'S official - the new Dino Jaws exhibition is a pile of poo. Dinosaur poo. The main attractions are ten animatronic dinosaurs, fresh from being seen by 750,000 visitors in just five months in the Hong Kong Science Museum.

But the exhibit that gets people talking is the steaming pile of poop piled high behind the plant-eating Euoplocephalus animatronic. It's part of a detective trail that encourages visitors to study dinosaur claws, jaws, guts and that pile of poo to discover what dinosaurs ate.

There's also the opportunity to touch real dinosaur poo if you dare (don't worry it's health and safety approved). The fact that it's fossil poo some 71-65 million years old makes the prospect of putting your hand without a poop scoop more palatable.

Dino Jaws originated at the Natural History Museum in London and is now on a world tour, with The Netherlands the next stop after Leeds. It's all about food, seeing how and what they ate for dinner. So this has educational value not just the chance to gaze and gape at very big prehistoric beasts that move.

As the Museum's touring exhibitions manager Maren Krumdieck, says: "Visitors will find themselves stepping back in time, and walking into,the feeding frenzy of hungry dinosaurs from slow-moving plant-eaters to fierce, agile flesh-eaters."

Of course, it's difficult not to learn something. The Oviraptor's name was thought to mean "egg thief" but turns out to actually mean "protective mother" which sheds a whole new light on its image.

With the Coelophysis, you're invited to touch the stomach region to see the crocodile bones from its last meal. The Edmontosaurus (a relative of Noel Edmonds perhaps?) is a noisy eater who gobbled down 100 kilogrammes of plants a day, the equivalent of 1,000 tomatoes.

The three-quarter size T-Rex is a real groundshaker. The earth literally moves beneath your feet as it goes looking for its tea. More and more is being revealed about the creature thanks to 30 fossil skeletons unearthed over the last 100 years in North America. this was one of the last dinosaurs to roam the earth 67-65 million years ago.

It was good at sniffing out food, was as heavy as 200 ten-year-olds and if T-Rex tripped up when running and fell it would probably have killed him.

Dino Jaws is at New Dock Hall, adjacent to Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds until Sept 7. Open daily 10am-6pm. Book online at dinosaursinleeds.co.uk