Australian Age of Dinosaurs had great pleasure in showing the Irwin Family around our Preparation Laboratory earlier this month.
Robert decided to take his mum on a well deserved holiday around Winton for Mothers Day. While this is a great gift for Terri, Robert also loves Dinosaurs. Australovenator,  (aka 'Banjo') Australia's largest predatory animal, is his favorite dinosaur (along with Micropachycephalosaurus apparently), so needless to say he was in his element.



David Elliott took the Irw...
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Australovenator, front and centre at Australia Zoo for Robert Irwin's 7th Birthday!

Giant blow up dinosaurs rides, life-like dinosaur puppets, real dinosaur bones and a living, breathing palaeontologist... what else could a dinosaur mad birthday boy want? An awesome Australovenator cake, that's what!

1st December saw a great celebration of Robert Irwin's 7th Birthday at Australia Zoo. With a roaring T. rex and the cutest ornithopod baby puppets; huge crocodile and dino slides; along with his ...
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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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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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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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