TORONTO

Right now they're known as Othnielia and Allosaurus, but Pearson International Airport would like its newly installed dinosaurs to have friendlier names.

The two dinos -- skeleton casts from the Royal Ontario Museum -- have been put on display at the airport's Terminal 1 international arrivals area.

They take passengers back to the time "when pterodactyls travelled the skies instead of airplanes,'' says the Greater Toronto Airports Authority.

The organization has launched a Name the Airport Dinosaurs contest.

Prizes include a one-year family membership to the museum as well as merchandise. The new names will be featured in the display.

"The experts aren't sure if these dinosaurs are male or female, so send us whatever names you think fit,'' the GTAA says on its website.

For details on entering the contest, visit www.gtaa.com

The exhibit, titled A Scene From the Late Jurassic, "captures a moment of 150 million years ago: a small herbivore, Othnielia, has tripped to the ground as a large predator Allosaurus bears down,'' the ROM says in a release.