To my my mind, the most exciting thing about Banjo, our specimen of Australovenator wintonensis, is his arm. He's a theropod predator of the T. rex body type but he's wonderfully different, especially in the arm and hand department.

T. rex is a huge animal with an equally huge head. It uses its head as the primary weapon; it just crunches into prey. The arms don't amount to much, in fact they're so small that their practical use is still not understood. Same goes for many other theropod di...
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Josh Cotten came out to Australian Age of Dinosaurs to follow his dreams of becoming a Palaeonotologist. He spent six days working with us on real dinosaur bones and helping with collection work. Josh also helped with sieving and sorting, looking for turtle, fish, crocodile and even dinosaur bone fragments in the matrix collected from dig sites.

Here we see Josh working on 'Wade', an as yet undescribed Australian Dinosaur. The bone is a part of a vertebrae from Wade's back. When we publish W...
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How cool would it be to say that you went all the way to Winton and had dinner with the dinosaurs?

Well the AAOD team put this idea it to the test.

Outback Aussie Tours visit us all the time and some groups arrive in the late afternoon for a tour, then nibbles at sunset followed by a BBQ dinner in the Largest Preparation Facility in Australia!



Here a group enjoy a wonderful evening with the AAOD Team and the dinosaurs. You can see in the background part of our fossil display and on the left si...
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John and Wilma drove all the way from Darwin to Winton to join us in the prep lab and commence a 10 day journey into the world of dinosaurs. After all the serious stuff and a full days training, they returned with smiles and a looming addiction... Wilma became so engrossed she had issues taking a break; so we went to extreme's by disconnecting her tools! John just took it all in his stride. They spoilt us with regular bowls of chocolates and sweets for the tearoom. That works for us!  As thei...
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In the previous digital dinosaur post I said the right way to rebuild a dinosaur is to capture every shred of scientific evidence. Seems obvious doesn’t it? But there are a lot of dinosaurs that we all know and love that contradict the evidence. Sauropods are a classic exampl...

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Working in the lab gives people the opportunity to discover brand new Australian Dinosaur bones. Most would say the most wonderful experience is removing the matrix (clay) and seeing the bone being exposed for the first time in 100 million years. However some would say the most rewarding and exhilarating part is witnessing bones that have been apart for millions of years and seeing them be reunited like they've never been apart.

In the photo above is the right humerus and ulna from Banjo, t...
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