Basic Statistics Length; up to 15 metres Height; 6 metres Weight; 8 tonnes Possible top speed; 45 km/h Where found; western North America Lived; 67-65 million years ago (latest Cretaceous) …
A chance discovery by a roadworker in 1956 has led, 37 years later, to one of the world’s great fossil discoveries in central New South Wales. The fossil site was …
You could call me an old snake man. I don’t mean I’m old (I’m only 30!), nor have I been studying snakes for a long time (18 years), but I …
With a name like Muttaburrasaurus, this has to be an Australian dinosaur! Of all the wonderful names of Australian country towns, it seems most fitting that one of Australia’s dinosaurs …
The classic image of a scientist is a man, usually old enough to have grey hair (which is never combed) wearing a white lab coat and completely incompetent at anything …
Every school has its ‘fossil nut’, that student who is mad about dinosaurs and fossils. These students can be infuriating! Most teachers would love to be able to encourage such …
I have always been fascinated by material and resources available to schools for children to learn about the environment and the world around them. For many years I have travelled …
Have you heard that Brontosaurus no longer exists? How did this, one of the most famous dinosaur names, suddenly become Apatosaurus? Who is responsible? The seeds of this whole dilemma …
