95 million years ago!!!
On Sunday we drove 22kms to the Australian Age of Dinosaurs attraction. This was awesome! A highlight was seeing the March of the Titanosaurs. This was only discovered in 1999 as a severe flood unearthed the rock bed in a local farmers creek. They called in the experts and low and behold, several dinosaur prints were identified deep in the mud (which had turned to stone). The creek bed was then painstakingly removed, piece by piece, and re assembled, under cover in controlled temperatures, at the Age of Dinosaur attraction. The fossilised footprints are over 95 million years old! We also toured the fossil collection centre, where the bones of Banjo, Matilda, Anne and Alex are on display – amazing, and the Fossil Preparation Laboratory where volunteers were busy cleaning bones found from recent area digs. This is a must-see experience.
We ended another great day catching up with Penny and Brian at the Tattersalls Hotel for dinner and drinks.
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