Experience the Eromanga Natural History Museum

Immerse yourself in enriching and rewarding experiences that take you into the world of prehistoric Australia. You can meet Australia’s largest dinosaur, visit a dinosaur dig site, join the dinosaur or megafauna dig team, learn to prepare fossils from the age of dinosaurs and the age of megafauna and stay on-site at Cooper’s Country Lodge.

What is the difference between megafauna fossils and dinosaur fossils?

Dinosaurs are reptiles that went extinct 64 million years ago. They grew to gigantic sizes. They lived in a time when Australia was a very different place to what it is today, and part of the ancient landmass called Gondwana. The Eromanga dinosaurs are estimated to be 95-98 million years old and lived during the late Cretaceous.

Megafauna are the group of animals that evolved after the dinosaurs died. They were very large marsupials, reptiles and flightless birds and went extinct about 20,000 years ago. Some of their descendants still exist today in much smaller forms such as kangaroos, wombats, komodo dragons and crocodiles. The Eulo megafauna lived during Pleistocene approximately 50,000 to 100,000 years ago.

About ENHM

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.