Each day during the dig, we do a couple of quizzes saved from newspapers throughout the year. We happened upon an older quiz, from The Age in late 2022. There was a question about an Ignoble prize winning study about the effects of constipation on the mating habits of scorpion. This raised a lot of questions and became a topic of conversation for about a day.
Pat gave Mary a scorpion in celebration.
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| Mary is surprised by the scorpion |
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| Wendy gets friendly with the scorpion |
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| The crew gaze down at the site |
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| Geordie finds a fossil |
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| Astrid takes notes about the fossils and rocks |
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| An imploded fish |
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| Alan studies the layers |
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| The crew heading back from site |
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| Our permit sign looking worse for wear after 20 days |
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| John, Alan and Tom |
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| John, Tom, Alan and Astrid |
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| Astrid takes notes about the hole crew |
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| Adele finds a lovely fossil |
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| Astrid and Amber excited about blackboards and fossils |
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| Astrid’s whiteboard of the day |
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| Possible vert |
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| Fossil |
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| Amber carries a bucket. |
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| Amber prints a little person shirt for Alan |
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| Astrid bedazzles again |
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| Marlonique on sponge |
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| The crew |
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| Marlonique on buckets |
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| Marlonique finds a fossil |
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| Mary and John |
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| A pretty centrum |
We have a new paper on the Victorian theropods! Congratulations to Jake Kotevski and his co-authors.
Read it here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2024.2441903
Or a less technical Conversation Article: https://theconversation.com/carnivorous-dinosaurs-thrived-in-australia-120-million-years-ago-new-fossils-show-242290
Darren found this pretty plant. We think it is Isoetalean (e.g. Isoetes bulbiformis)
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| Amber with the most important find - a cup of tea |
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| Wendy, Amber and Tom confer |
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| The hole crew |
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| Amber on rock saw |
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| Alan, Corrie and Darren |
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| Alan and Geordie |
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| The crew works through the shower |
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| Corrie cleaning rocks |
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| Mary has a nice find |
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| Amber squeezes sponges |
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| What.a workspace! |
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| Working hard |
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| Breaking rock |
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| Tom’s little toe |
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| Tom and Mary and the tie |
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| Astrid bedazzles the blackboard |
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| Alan and Geordie |
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| Breaking rock in the back yard |
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| Adele finds a fossil |
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| Corrie finds a tooth |
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| Astrid finds turtle |
