Fellow fans of all things gargantuan and extinct will recognize ‘Cooper’ the largest dinosaur ever found in Australia as depicted in the ABC’s Time Traveller’s Guide to Australia.

The homepage of our newly launched site shows a representation of the yet-to-be categorised Cooper, a 95 million year old Titanosaur on the land where he was actually discovered. A new 3D digital reconstruction is coming soon.

Turns out, this Eromanga monster was the tip of the South West Queensland dinosaur iceberg. To date, the Eromanga Natural History Museum has found over 70 dinosaur and megafauna (think giant wombats) sites in various stages of excavation, and an extinct flora collection of exceptional scientific value.

All this is estimated to be about 90 years worth of work for scientists, technicians, diggers, preparers, curators and researchers. Most of who are volunteers. Thank you all!

So, while the Outback Gondwana Foundation continues to seek funding to build the actual Eromanga Natural History Museum, for which we have the land and the architect’s plans, we are operating out of a field shed and sharing everything we can with you via this site.

Digital technology is key to the ENHM. We are using cutting-edge technology - mostly borrowed of course - such as CT scanning, LiDar, Photogrammetry and 3D reconstructions to achieve amazing research results, which we are cataloguing in a digital system called Vernon for worldwide access.

So, watch this space as we reveal more Australian, and world scientific firsts.

Better still, watch this space as the government decides to back science, technology, education and the outback and come through with funding for the museum at Eromanga.

Meanwhile, we hope the website provides lots of resources and inspiration to help Australians share in the bone rush and potential avalanche of knowledge that is underway in South West Queensland.

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