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.
Thursday, 21 May 2020
Monday, 18 May 2020
We have an elaphrosaur!
New research for Stephen Poropat, Adele Pentland, Ruairidh Duncan, Joseph Bevitt, Pet Vickers Rich and Tom Rich has solved the mystery of “Jess’s pterosaur vert” by including it in group of dinosaurs we didn’t know we had!
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/may/18/rare-long-necked-dinosaur-that-roamed-the-polar-world-unearthed-in-australia
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1342937X20301234?via%3Dihub
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/may/18/rare-long-necked-dinosaur-that-roamed-the-polar-world-unearthed-in-australia
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1342937X20301234?via%3Dihub