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Category: Opal Fossils

Palaeo Pictures Update – July 2022

We’re off and racing! The last couple of years have been tough on everyone, and Palaeo Pictures is no exception. Hampered in being able to get out and about to do constructive and interesting things, both COVID and a lack of funds has kept us shackled at home with little to do.  But now it’s…
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Showing off Eric

This must have been around 1989 when I took some friends from down the street into the Australian Museum to view Eric, the opalised Plesiosaur. I had not long finished cleaning Eric and putting him back together and was so proud of him, I just wanted to show him off to anyone and everyone! (and…
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Saving A Dinosaur: Our approach to funding research and protecting fossils

Palaeo Pictures has acquired the opalised bones of a small dinosaur. You may well ask why a video production company wants to get into owning fossils! It’s a long and complex story that comes down to finding a new way to secure these unique pieces of our natural heritage and to fund their preparation and study. At stake is the future of uniquely Australian fossils and the science that delivers our understanding of them.