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Chairman’s Message
The Outback Gondwana Foundation spread its wings in 2012 and moved to an exciting new area of discovery. Only preliminary work had been done at the megafauna sites at Eulo in 2011 and it was only after a full two week dig in 2012 that the full extent of the fossil field became apparent...
Collection’s Manager’s Report
All the 2011 Eulo megafauna material was processed before the beginning of the 2012 field season. Tanya and Robyn spent a week making a very special cradle to enable the remarkable lower jaw bone of ‘Kenny’ the Diprotodon to be able to make the journey back to Eulo…
Eulo Megafauna - By Paleontologist Dr Scott Hocknull
A preliminary survey and excavation undertaken near Eulo, southwest Queensland, has revealed one of Australia’s richest megafauna-bearing fossil sites, both in terms of faunal diversity and abundance of remains. This excavation is the second systematic excavation in southwestern Queensland with the first undertaken in 2011.Surveys and preliminary...
Eulo Visitor’s Day
Over 100 people from around Eulo, Cunnamulla and Yowah were fascinated with the displays, presentations and the dig site interpretation at the 2012 Eulo Megafauna Visitors day near Eulo. The day started early with first visitors arriving about 8am on a very typical cool winter’s morning at the shearing shed near the dig site...
OSL dating
Optical Stimulated Luminescence dating is used to place the age of fossils younger than about 200,000 years. It dates the in-situ sediments next to the fossils. Collecting the OSL cores in the field during digs is very important...
Art and Science
Adele Outterridge and Wim de Vos were the 2012 Artists in Residence for the Eulo Megafauna Dig. Adele and Wim have a personal connection with the Eulo area after visiting and working in the area a few years ago...
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