Museum Victoria and Monash University have conducted “Dinosaur Dreaming” digs since 1995. Originally at the Flat Rocks site outside Inverloch, Victoria, it has evolved to include localities along the Bass and Otway Coasts. Since 2008 this blog has shared images and stories of crew taking part in excavations, fossil bones recovered, and fossilly things we get up to between digs. The most recent dig took place at Twin Reefs for 3 weeks in February 2025.
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
Portland trip
Over the long weekend a few diggers headed out to Portland to look for megafauna and shark's teeth (and penguins). Everyone went home happy - we found a few teeth (and Alanna found a jaw). We got completely covered in mud (my favourite part!). Travis spotted a bone in Sean's collection that was very similar to the one he just wrote his honours thesis about. And Darren got to rescue a couple of lumps of rock he is convinced will contain good shark's teeth, and to update his ideas about the sites. Big thanks to locals Sean and Toni-Lee for their generosity - showing us around and allowing us to look at their fossils. Pictures in other posts.
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