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.)

Learning to remove fossils from matrix

Some of the Bass Coast Preppers reviewing old fossils 

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

Rock-breaking Tragics

Sharyn and Kim focus on the job

Sharyn shows off her fossil

Simona shows off her fossil

Rock-breaking in the driveway

Kim and Lesley chat and work

Prospecting The Punchbowl yesterday

Melissa celebrates her fossil find

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.

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!