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Message from the OGF Chairman
The Outback Gondwana Foundation and the Eromanga Dinosaur Project continues to expand, dare I say it, exponentially. Each year we seem to be able to report new discoveries and developments but 2011 has turned out to be a quite amazing year and the OGF area of operation, both in a geographic and scientific sense, has increased dramatically…
Queensland Museum 'I Dig dinos'
The Queensland Museum held its second dinosaur festival at South Bank in Brisbane in January this year. The femur from Eromanga dinosaur ‘Zac’ was once again a special feature of the display along with the bones from ’Cooper’ and George’ which have been on loan on display at QM for many years. The ’Zac’ metacarpal was also taken down for the displays…
Wangkamurra People
Malcolm Ebsworth provided the dig team with another fascinating day to look at sites of geological and cultural significance. A cave in the McGregor Range has preserved painting of emus feet. It is unusual to see painting preserved in these areas as most of them have been exposed to the weather or ruined by native and feral animals. Scott Hocknull noted that it may be possible to OSL date these paintings because of the wasps nests built over them…
Boonthamurra People
Members of the Boonthamurra People met with OGF to discuss the proposed plans for the Eromanga Natural History Museum. Mark Wallace expressed his support of the project. Boonthamurra members surveyed for cultural heritage artefacts the museum site and the surrounding land to be excised for the project…
Visitors Day
This year the visitors day was held at the wool room at the Plevna Downs shearing shed and the field laboratory. There was not time for visitors to travel down to the dig site. The dig team all pitched in to help with the finishing touches of the set up and provided an exceptional experience for the visitors on the day. Due the large number of people and mixed ages, two tours of the lab were given. Scott Hocknull provided an entertaining and informative interpretation of what was happening in the fossil preparation lab.
Science and Art
OGF PhD student and Brisbane based artist, AK (Anita) Milroy was 2011 Artist in Residence for the Eromanga dinosaur dig. Anita first became involved with the Eromanga Dinosaur Project when she volunteered at the annual dig in 2010. Anita was so impressed with the dig and OGF that she has now joined the ranks of our most enthusiastic supporters.
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