All the way from New Zealand, Margy found out she had an addiction to dinosaurs! Her first experience was participating in the Dino Dig in 2007, now she's going great guns and completed her Honorary Technician Assessment with us.
Here's what she had to say...

I would never have imagined that I would enter the world of dinosaur digs and fossil preparation. I wouldn't want to arm wrestle a sauropod or try to outwit a theropod in the flesh, but such is the fascination that their bones have for...

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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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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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