The 700

A little while ago, Tom Rich published an article in Deposits Magazine called "The 700", about all of the dig vounteers. We have republished it on the Dino Dreaming website.

More photos from the Rock Breaking Tragics

Mary's very happy find

Nicole finds a nice claw

Nicole's claw

Some photos from the rock breaking tragic’s weekend

Mike shows off his fossil find

Lesley gives Alan’s tooth some TLC

Alan shows off his theropod tooth

Mike’s fossil

Sneak Peek at the Field Report

The 2019 Field Report has just been sent to the printers!
Here is a sneak peek at the Front Cover. It features a beautiful photo of ornithopod jaws from ETRW taken by Ruairidh Duncan..

National Grographic on our feathers

Check it out here.

New paper on the Koonwarra feathers

Check it out in Science Daily or the paper in Gondwana Research.

Some photos from Jane Flowers

Mary breaks rock

The crew on the beach

Bailing out the hole

John digs whilst Nick watches



The crew, the hole and the beach

More photos from the ETRW mini-dig

Sweeping...

Dead dolphin on our beach

Bailing out the hole

Centrum

Another centrum

Pretty ilium

Long skinny bone

The toe that Pat found

Happy Smiling ETRW Fossil Finders

Mary finds a pretty bone

Corrie finds a bone

Pat finds a toe bone

We dug a hole

The sand was a bit high at ETRW, so we did a lot of digging.

New paper on our theropods

A new paper on "The Claw" and some of the other ETRW theropod material appeared in the Journal of Vertebrate Palentology on 10 October. Dr Steve Poropat et al compare our material to "Banjo", from Winton. Sad news about the Spinosaurid, though.


Read about it in Swinbourne's News.

Field Report Day

The 2019 Field Report presentation is a good chance to catch up with the Dinosaur Dreaming crew and hear about the latest Victorian Cretaceous discoveries and research.
Where: Melbourne Museum, Road to Zero Seminar Room
When: 1:30 pm Saturday November 30
For those who participated in the 2019 Field Season, or who are Friends of Dinosaur Dreaming, you will receive your very own copy of the Field Report to take home. (Anyone not a financial member of our Friends or whose membership has lapsed can join at the door.)

Learning to remove fossils from matrix

Some of the Bass Coast Preppers reviewing old fossils 

Adele's new pterosaur!

Dinosaur Dreamers Adele Pentland, Steve Poropat and their colleagues have just named a new pterosaur from the Winton formation in Queensland. Nicknamed Butch, Ferrodraco lentoni is a beauty!


Read about it here:
National Geographic
ABC
The Guardian


Or the journal article in Scientific Reports

Rock-breaking Tragics

Sharyn and Kim focus on the job

Sharyn shows off her fossil

Simona shows off her fossil

Rock-breaking in the driveway

Kim and Lesley chat and work

Prospecting The Punchbowl yesterday

Melissa celebrates her fossil find

Dig Cancelled

Our Eric the Red West dig has been cancelled. Some have gone home, some are staying one more night for the promise of Pip’s lasagne and Corrie’s mulled wine.

Back to ETRW!

Today, a small band of Dinosaur Dreamers are off to Eric the Red West to find out if the bones that we call "the block" found at the very end of the 2017 dig are part of a large fossil-dense clump.
We will be cold and wet and ravaged by wind. Wish us luck!

Australian Dinosaurs on Nightlife

Featuring Dinosaur Dreamer (and MV VP collection manager) Tim Ziegler.
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/canberra/programs/nightlife/fascinating-story-of-australian-dinosaurs/11166064

ETRW Planning

We are busy planning for a small crew to visit Eric the Red West in late June. It will be definitely cold, probably wet, and the tides will consipre against us. Why are we going? To find out if the area that, in 2016,  produced the concetration of fossils in known as "The Block" is broad or deep, or just a small concentration. I will post photos of our attemtps.

Mike finds a fossil on his birthday

Pip congratulating Mike on his find

Tragics weekend at the Kools 6/7 April 2019

Although it has only been about 5 weeks since the end of Dinosaur Dreaming 2019, a small group of dreamers who were suffering from rock-breaking withdrawal (hence "tragic") met at Lesley Kool's house in Wonthaggi to get their fix of breaking some of the stockpile of rock from the recent dig.
The weather was perfect, the company was scintillating and we found more bones, including four ornithopod teeth! There is still plenty of rock to be processed so we are planning another tragics weekend around the end of August-beginning of September.

Small limb bone found by Nicole Evered

 
                                          Kim and Nick working hard

                                          Wendy White spotted the camera, but Mary, Wendy Turner and Mike
                                           were oblivious

                                          Ornithopod tooth finders - Wendy Turner, Nick van Klaveren
                                          and Wendy White (found 2!)

Galleonosaurus Facebook videos

Some Facebook videos about Galleonosaurus dorisae:

Lesley and former banker Gerry:
https://www.facebook.com/9NewsGippsland/posts/2292657821006135

Mike talks about a possible local museum:
https://www.facebook.com/WINNewsGippsland/posts/2648498991887510

Tim Ziegler at MV with the holotype:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=387362315420905

Galleonosaurus the journal article

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/new-smallbodied-ornithopods-dinosauria-neornithischia-from-the-early-cretaceous-wonthaggi-formation-strzelecki-group-of-the-australianantarctic-rift-system-with-revision-of-qantassaurus-intrepidus-rich-and-vickersrich-1999/D6FEF2CD3EC1CAAD8F41B6ED73EC356C

Galleonosaurus dorisae - a newly named Flat Rocks dino

Introducing Galleonosaurus dorisae, an ornithopod named by Matt Herne (et al) from a specimen found by Gerry Kool at the Flat Rocks dig in 2008!

Here are some press articles:
BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-47518544/galleonosaurus-dorisae-new-dinosaur-discovered-in-australia
ABC: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-03-11/wallaby-sized-dinosaur-from-victorian-coast/10878984
EurekAlert: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/cup-nwd030619.php
Earth.com: https://www.earth.com/news/new-small-dinosaur-species-australia/
Cosmos Magazine: https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/newly-found-aussie-dinosaur-confirms-diversity-in-ancient-rift-valley
WRAL: https://www.wral.com/dinosaur-fossil-found-in-australia-was-about-the-size-of-a-wallaby/18249410/
New York Times Post: https://nytimespost.com/new-species-of-dinosaur-the-size-of-a-small-kangaroo-discovered-in-australia-resembles-a-galleon-sailing-ship/
KITV: https://www.kitv.com/story/40101295/dinosaur-fossil-found-in-australia-was-about-the-size-of-a-wallaby
The Sun: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/8607350/new-species-dinosaur-small-kangaroo-discovered-australia-galleon/
CNET: https://www.cnet.com/news/scientists-discovered-a-new-wallaby-sized-dinosaur-in-australia/
CNN: https://m.cnn.com/en/article/h_5ea9dae39c42ac6a33ac641e6e837aca
India Times Post : https://indiatimespost.com/new-species-of-dinosaur-the-size-of-a-small-kangaroo-discovered-in-australia-resembles-a-galleon-sailing-ship/
VAAJU.com: https://vaaju.com/aus/new-wallaby-sized-dinosaur-identified-from-fossils-found-along-the-victorian-coast-science-news/
Phys.org https://phys.org/news/2019-03-wallaby-sized-dinosaur-ancient-australian-antarctic-rift.html
Channel 9: https://www.9news.com.au/content/2019/03/11/17/46/victoria-news-new-dinosaur-found-galleonosaurus-wallaby
USA Today Post: https://usatodaypost.com/new-species-of-dinosaur-the-size-of-a-small-kangaroo-discovered-in-australia-resembles-a-galleon-sailing-ship/
The Cool Press: https://www.thecoolpress.com/2019/03/11/dinosaur-fossil-found-in-australia-was-about-the-size-of-a-wallaby/
Live Science: https://www.livescience.com/64953-wallaby-size-dinosaur-discovered-australia.html
Sci News: http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/galleonosaurus-dorisae-06980.html
Smithsonian: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-dinosaur-species-found-australia-reveals-lost-world-180971681/
Tech Explorist: https://www.techexplorist.com/new-wallaby-sized-dinosaur-found-australia/21489/
Fox News: https://www.foxnews.com/science/new-tiny-dinosaur-discovered-in-australia
Newsweek : https://www.newsweek.com/galleonosaurus-dorisae-new-dinosaur-australia-rift-valley-1357986
Science Daily: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190311081923.htm
USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/03/11/dinosaur-discovery-jaw-fossils-australia-wallaby-sized-herbivore/3127668002/
News.com.au: https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/new-wallabysized-dinosaur-identified-from-the-ancient-australianantarctic-rift-valley/news-story/df2bf52721ffc034652c74c3f7840049


I will post the link to the journal shortly.

Jade's vlog

In week one of the dig this year, Jade made a video record of her time as a volunteer.
Check it out on YouTube: Jade's vlog

At the house breaking remaining rock

Alan finds a fossil

Nicole (finally) finds a fossil

A fossil with a flared end

A pretty vertebra

Last day on site

Tim Z finds a fossil

Alan talks sedimentology with the John Monash students

The John Monash students

Darren finds a fossil

The nice fossil that Tim Z found

Another fossil

… and another

A small shaft

Cassia finds a fossil

The fossil Cassia found