A new megafauna site and another beautifully preserved megafauna bone bed with dozens of bones unearthed this year. Many more bones are still to be recovered in coming years from this site. Listen to Robyn in this interview conducted on the recent Eulo megafauna dig with ABC Western Qld, Ollie Wykeham. ...read more
Eromanga Natural History Museum was featured heavily on ABC News. Below is an extract of the article. Use the link to read in full and view the movies. ...read more
After an amazing 10 years of prep to complete approximately 10% of ‘Cooper’, the ENHM fossil technicians have signed off on their final prep notes. All bones but the right pubis and ischium of ‘Cooper’s’ pelvis have been completed and are now kept in the temperature-controlled holotype collection room in the ENHM gallery. What an awesome effort by all who participated to make the completion of ‘Cooper’s’ specimen possible. ...read more
Over the period of the last few months of 2017 ENHM has been working hard to get accredited with the Australian Tourism Accreditation Program (ATAP). And after this period ENHM is now a member of this program. This week we sat down with a representative from the ATAP team to assess and finally award us our shinny green tick of approval. The process included each document of importance at the museum to be uploaded and checked towards the national accreditation standards. Accreditation now opens up opportunities for the museum to be in the running for prestigious awards at the Australian and Regional Tourism Award Ceremonies. ...read more
Imagine the mammoth task of being placed in front of a bucket of megafauna mud and being told to find fossils the size of a pin head. Well this was the task ahead for our newest volunteer Steve Young. A commercial photographer from coughs harbor enjoys the small finer things in life, like taking photos of minuscule fungi’s. Luckily for us, Steve wanted to develop he interest in microscopic things and share his skills with us and help build our collection. After two weeks of working through less than a millimeter in size sediments, Steve’s collection of finds was extensive and exciting and including that of a partial lower jaw from a small 100,000-year-old Gekkonid. With a heavy heart Steve left us and will be returning again later in the year. ...read more
Eromanga Natural History Museum has just had been featured in an article for Rex Airline inflight magazine True Blue. The article titled "Outback Encounters" looks at the wonders offered in our region. As we cannot publish the whole article here is a snapshot below. Click the link to view the entire contents of the article. ...read more
Eromanga Natrual History Museum is proud to announce we have been awarded a share of the Small Business Digital Grants Program. Find below an extract of the original article. See the original post here. ...read more
Australia’s largest dinosaur replication - Funds were raised through the generous contribution of supporters of the Crowd Funding campaign and matching funds from Qld Arts, Outback Gondwana Foundation, RADF and Bridgeport. ...read more
Welcome to a brand new Australian dinosaur museum! Eromanga Natural History Museum is an exciting new education and tourism development near where the fossils of Australia’s largest dinosaurs, the Eromanga Titanosaurs are being discovered in South West Queensland, Australia. These dinosaur discoveries were first found 2004 and now you can finally see these amazing bones and teeth, learn about the discoveries and even help clean the bones or join a dig. Over eighty, dinosaur (95-98 million years old) and much younger megafauna sites are being found in this internationally significant paleontological hotspot in the heart of Australia. Our vision is to become a regional Centre of Excellence for Arid Australia Palaeontology and a major tourist destination for Outback Australia. Stage 1 is complete and Stage 2 is planned to start very soon.
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