I must relate an amazing discovery. It fascinates me no end how the earth can preserve something so delicate and precious for nearly a hundred million years, keeping it safe and secure until someone stumbles across it in a paddock. The bone I'm talking about is one belonging to the world's first specimen of Australoventor wintonensis aka 'Banjo'.

So my humerus story begins...

On the 5th of September 2009, Ali Calvey, a 'Dugger' (meaning someone who has been on dinosaur dig before with us)...

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The big wet started in January 2010 and it's still going! As I sit here typing away, the creek is flooded! Mother Nature is a powerful force—she rules the world! But does she rule the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Team? Let's see...

The photo above shows a stunning paddock of green grass that is usually arid and dusty. The Jump-Up, the site of the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Preparation Facility, is the raised black strip on the right side horizon of the photo. See our fabulous 'Elliot' t...

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'Finding Wade' is a project we've been running since 2006. Wade is an as yet unidentified sauropod dinosaur and what a weird and wonderful chaotic array she is! We've got bones that are fused together, some that are smashed up, and some that are near perfect. Much of Wade is encased in solid rock that's harder than her bones. She's a challenge to work on that's for sure!

The photo above shows the new vertebra just after we completed it. It's a back (dorsal) vertebrae ~45 cm high and ~45 cm...

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At Australian Age of Dinosaurs we have the world's richest source of Aussie Dinosaur fossils. We love our fossil bones. Each one having taken hundreds and sometimes thousands of hours to prepare and all of them from species new to science. That's special stuff and they are beautiful and precious things to behold. But it can't end there!

Our dream is to bring these wonderful animals back to life. We want everyone to see the real animals our fossil bones belonged to. But how to do that?

Well, we ...
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