We want to bring Australian dinosaurs back to life as properly as the science, technology, and contemporary thinking allows. The aim is to show what our long-lost animals really looked like in the flesh, then make them walk, run and interact as they once did on the big screen! Crucial to the restoration process is the capture of every last bit of evidence the fossils ...
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Yes, we finally turned the digital model of Australovenator's arm into a solid 3D printed reality!


So how did we do this?, Turns out there are a number of ways to "print out" a digital model. You can carve it out of  solid block of material using a computer-numeric-controlled (CNC) "chisel" (basically a spinning router bit mounted on a...
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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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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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