Dinner with the Dinosaurs

June 13, 2010

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 side some of the tables in the lab.




Terry, a driver/guide/cook with Outback Aussie Tours gives a thumbs up to the first ever 'Dinner with the Dinosaurs' evening. See the dinner happening on the right and prep tables covered with dinosaur fossils on the left!

Great concept, great night and great fun!


Posted by Trish Sloan. Posted In : On The Jump-Up 

 

John & Wilma Carlow

June 13, 2010

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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Posted by Trish Sloan. Posted In : What They Say 

 

Recreating Banjo—a strategy

June 12, 2010

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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Posted by Brant Bassam. Posted In : Digital Dinosaurs 

 

Reunited

June 8, 2010

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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Posted by Trish Sloan. Posted In : In The Laboratory 

 

Humerus Story

April 7, 2010

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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Posted by Trish 'Tricky' Sloan. Posted In : In The Laboratory 

 

Dedication!

April 6, 2010

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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Posted by Trish 'Tricky' Sloan. Posted In : On The Jump-Up 

 

New Wade vertebra

April 5, 2010

'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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Posted by Trish "Tricky" Sloan. Posted In : In The Laboratory 

 

Digital Dinos—A New Project!

April 1, 2010



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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Posted by Brant Bassam. Posted In : Digital Dinosaurs 

 
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