Research Projects
Palaeo Pictures has a diverse range of research projects in Australian palaeontology. Our research is all about collecting, protecting, preserving and presenting Australia’s natural heritage in the form of our unique fossils. We also conduct research into understanding the significance of our fossil heritage and explaining their part in the greatest story ever to be told – the history of life on Earth!
This is also high-profile research with enormous potential to generate positive news stories for domestic and international distribution. Stories from palaeontology are always presented as good news, educational and socially responsible information and our stories are no exception!
We are seeking a sponsor to back the research that we conduct. There are unique and diverse sponsor benefits on offer including positive corporate social responsibility credits through association with our research, naming rights to some specimens, reproductions of specimens for boardroom or head office displays and access to Palaeo Paul as a unique speaker and presenter for all occasions.
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OPAL DINOSAUR
Palaeo Pictures has secured the opalised skeleton of a small dinosaur! It maybe a new species but we won’t know until the specimens have been scanned, cleaned, and studied.
There is still extensive fieldwork to Lightning Ridge and New England required for this project as well as the cost of transporting the specimen to Adelaide for a CT scan and the cost of expert study of the specimen.
MYSTERY HOLES IN DINOSAUR
Palaeo Pictures has Australia’s most extraordinary fossil find but we can’t say too much about it at this stage! Suffice to say, if we can prove that we have what we think we have, this will change the way we think about dinosaurs forever!
This project requires extensive fieldwork to Hughenden and Richmond in FNQ as well as a visit to Southampton, UK to cover lab work associated with this research. There is also on-going acid preparation of specimens and the need for further expert attention.
SAVING OPAL FOSSILS
This is an on-going project of identifying rare opal fossils from Coober Pedy, Andamooka, White Cliffs and Lightning Ridge. The intention is to identify specimens of interest, CT scan them and secure those specimens that may be of significant interest.
This project requires extensive fieldwork to Lightning Ridge, White Cliffs, Andamooka and Coober Pedy. It also requires the production of educational material for miners and the transport of specimens to and from CT scanning facility at Flinders University. We also need to establish a separate source of funding to secure specimens of importance identified in this studay as well as their preparation, study and eventual donation to an appropriate institution.
A LONE BONE
A single bone from the neck of a marine reptile found by Palaeo Paul in 2012 proved to be hiding secrets about the animals life and what happened to it after it died. This research project seeks to unravel those stories.
AUSTRALIA’S CROCODILES
Palaeo Paul the world’s expert in Australia’s prehistoric crocodiles!
He has several on-going studies into various specimens and is trying to solve a mystery as to how some of these crocodiles dispersed across the South
Pacific!
