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.
Monday, 27 February 2017
Sunday, 26 February 2017
Fri 24th - last day at site
Karina finds a fossil |
Ali finds a fossil |
Nick looks at the fossil layers |
Steve photographs the hole |
Kevin finds a fossil |
Wevetini turns over a rock |
Wendy finds a fossil |
Mary finds a fossil |
Fotini finds a fossil |
Gemma finds a fossil |
Wendy and Steve apply paraloid |
Wendy applies paraloid |
James finds a fossil |
Thu 23rd - fossils and stretching
Wed 22nd - Fossil finds
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
Sunday, 19 February 2017
ABC
Check out the article on the Deakin project at: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-17/dinosaur-virtual-reality-3d-using-future-tech-to-visit-past/8278348.
Fri 17th - More problems with tides
Thurs 16th - a lovely ornithopod jaw
Thursday, 16 February 2017
Wed 15th - interesting visitors
Today some researchers from Deakin University came to visit us - they are looking at how to make a Virtual Reality education experience in a real-world environment and are going to use our site and our dinosaurs in that. There are all sorts of challenges like waves (noisy and moving), wind, sun and cloud cover, shadows and jackhammers so we are keen to see what they can make of all the data they collected.
Today was the first day we found confirmed teeth - Mary found a lovely ornithopod tooth, Allen S found a cute little plesiosaur tooth, and Steve found a tooth that will have to wait until Lesley gets here to be identified. I think that Alan T might have found a theropod tooth under the weeds but pretty much no-one agrees with me so we will need to wait for that outcome as well.
And the weather god smiled on us once again and we did very little digging!
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Allen S finds a fossil |
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Mary finds a fossil |
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Chris finds a fossil |
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Steve gets interviewed by the ABC |
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Mel finds a fossil |
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Mike finds a fossil |
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John S finds a fossil |