Monday 16 December 2019
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.
Sunday 15 December 2019
Some photos from the rock breaking tragic’s weekend
Wednesday 20 November 2019
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..
Here is a sneak peek at the Front Cover. It features a beautiful photo of ornithopod jaws from ETRW taken by Ruairidh Duncan..
Thursday 14 November 2019
New paper on the Koonwarra feathers
Check it out in Science Daily or the paper in Gondwana Research.
Some photos from Jane Flowers
More photos from the ETRW mini-dig
Sunday 10 November 2019
Wednesday 6 November 2019
New paper on our theropods
Thursday 31 October 2019
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.)
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.)
Saturday 5 October 2019
Friday 4 October 2019
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
Read about it here:
National Geographic
ABC
The Guardian
Or the journal article in Scientific Reports
Monday 9 September 2019
Rock-breaking Tragics
Sunday 28 July 2019
Saturday 22 June 2019
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.
Friday 21 June 2019
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!
We will be cold and wet and ravaged by wind. Wish us luck!
Monday 3 June 2019
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
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/canberra/programs/nightlife/fascinating-story-of-australian-dinosaurs/11166064
Friday 31 May 2019
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.
Sunday 28 April 2019
Monday 8 April 2019
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.
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!)
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!)
Sunday 17 March 2019
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
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
Monday 11 March 2019
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.
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.
Friday 8 March 2019
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
Check it out on YouTube: Jade's vlog
Friday 1 March 2019
Last day on site
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