Rookies Day -fossil finders!

 

Tim finds a turtle shell

Doris finds an ornithopod tooth

Ruby finds the first fossil of the day.

Ruby shows Annie her fossil.

Leo finds a fossil

Rookies Day - geology tour

 

Alan T begins the geology tour

Alan T leads the diggers over the shore platform

Rookies Day - cleaning the rock surface

 

Yik Yin removes sand

Sweeping the rock

Kaitlyn sweeps rock as John W pours water

Kaitlyn continues to sweep the rock

The crew working

Sophia digs a drainage channel

Cleaning the rock

Sweeping, sweeping, sweeping…

Rookies Day - practice rocks

 

Mary and Yik Yin

Kaitlyn, Sachi, Hannah and Jack

Natalie, Marion and Claudia 

Leo, Noah and Mike

Ruby, Swinks and Matthew

Alan, Tinh and Tim

Tom, Adam and Gabe

Geoff, Sophia, Doris, Annie and Don

Rookies Day - group photo

 

Driveway rockbreaking pics

 

Fossil find (skully)

Adele finds a fossil

Jack finds a fossil

Nocturnal: Next Gen

Dinosaur Dreamers Ruairidh Duncan, Jake Kotevski and Adele Pentland are presenting at this Thursday's Nocturnal. Full details and tickets: Museum After Dark | Nocturnal: Next Gen - Melbourne Museum

2025 Hewitt Lecture

Tom Rich and Pat Vickers-Rich are presenting the 2025 Hewitt Lecture on Thursday 26th June.

For details see Monthly meetings - GSA VICTORIA

Steve Poropat talks dinosaur words on ABC Melbourne Radio

Check out Steve Poropat talking dinosaur words with David Astle at https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/melbourne-evenings/evenings/105220350

Steve appears at about the 2 hour mark on the 30 April episode (or you can listen to the whole thing and learn about fruit flies).

Hear as Steve expounds on Beetle Bums, Shoulder Bones and the GOK.

Australian Heritage Festival

Sally Hurst from Find a Fossil is hosting some events as part of the Australian Heritage festival.

A few of them feature our sites and palaeontologists. Check out our website or Sally's for details: April 2025 | Dinodreaming.

Noddyland Day 2

 

Adam and Corrie extract rock

Lesley and Mary have a chat

Melissa and Doris

Adam, Corrie and John extract rock

John, Corrie and Adam

Adele examines a mystery bone

Lesley and Adele confer

Peter, Doris and Lesley

Adam finds a fossil on a big rock

Peter and Doris off to look for footprints

Doris and Peter

Adele looks for surface fossils

Adele and Corrie look for surface fossils

Cleaning the shore platform

Noddyland

 A small number of our most experienced crew decided to explore Noddyland and see what we might find. We found 7 bones, 2 of which we kept.

Buckets ready for extracted rock

The crew confers

The early morning light

Extraction about to begin

What a place to work

Corrie

The crew photo

Peter finds a fossil

Adam finds a fossil

Adam makes the international symbol for
“I found a Cretaceous fish palate”

Alan breaking rock