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 Eagles Nest and Twin Reefs for 10 days in February 2024.
Today, the second specime of Corriebattar marywaltersae was published, which strengthens the evidence for Corriebaatar as the oldest currently known cimolodontan.
Congratulations to Rich et al.
Read the paper here: Second specimen of <em>Corriebaatar marywaltersae</em> from the Lower Cretaceous of Australia confirms its multituberculate affinities - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica (pan.pl)
A new review of monotreme evolution including material from our sites was published overnight in Alcheringa.
Read it here: Full article: A review of monotreme (Monotremata) evolution (tandfonline.com)
