In a recent blog post, I’d just picked up our little opalised dinosaur during a visit to Lightning Ridge. Eager to have a look, I took it back to my hotel room to examine inside the three tatty boxes labelled ‘The Briefcase Dinosaur’. What followed was a wondrous couple of hours sorting through numerous plastic…
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We take a look at some amazing dinosaur footprints while visiting the Isle of Wight.
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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Ok, so Stonehenge is a little bit recent for palaeontology but it’s still a fascinating trip into the past!
Come with us on a dinosaur hunt on the Isle of Wight! Meet some of the fossil hunters and palaeontologists who are bringing these ancient creatures back to life.
Going through boxes of old family photographs and came across this classic. In 1978 a 14-year-old Palaeo Paul won my age group for my fossil collection in a competition run by the Australian Museum. The competition was open for any natural history collection so my fossils were up against collections of butterflies and insects, rocks,…
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Back in 1988, Palaeo Paul was a keen postgraduate student chasing the fossil crocodiles of Australia. While most of my field work was at the amazing Riversleigh Station in northwestern Queensland, we did here of crocodile fossils coming from the Alcoota site in the Northern Territory. At that time, this site was being worked by…
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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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