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Jurassic Park – Queensland style

Winton : Australia | 5 months ago  
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Walk into the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History in Winton – by the time it is completed in 2015, it would be the largest museum of dinosaur fossils in the world. Recently there was news of discovery of three species of dinosaur fossils in Winton, Queensland (Australia). These are dated back to approximately 98 million years ago. One of these is the Australovenator wintonensis (nicknamed Banjo) – it eats meat and is the Australian equivalent of the velociraptor of the Jurassic Park movies. The other two nicknamed Matilda and Clancy are of the plant-eating variety – these four-legged sauropod species are presumed to be new types of titanosaurs which were the largest animals ever to walk the earth. The authorities expect the Dinosaur Museum to be an attraction for tourists and boost educational tourism.

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  • Posted By mllovric mllovric | 5 months ago
    Check the news that I just shared in full about it from www.Adelaidenow.com.au
  • Posted By prabirghose prabirghose | 5 months ago
    the link did not work ... but i think we have reported on the same topic ...
  • Posted By mona37 mona37 | 5 months ago
    i love dino's, i would love to visit the museum for sure :)
  • Posted By mllovric mllovric | 4 months ago
    I don't know about it being a museum but at the same time I do know that
    some guy in the area owns a large property where they are constantly digging up complete dinosaur skeletons. 4/7/2009.
  • Posted By prabirghose prabirghose | 4 months ago
    coincidence? could so many dinosaur fossils exist in one place? was it a mass grave?
  • Posted By mllovric mllovric | 4 months ago
    prabhilgose, I believe so that it was a mass grave of dinosaurs that had
    been discovered about ten or fifteen years ago. Giant foot prints have been found imbedded in rock where the monsters used to go to the river to
    drink water. They show a shot every now and then on the Australian channel ABC to the world and the progress that they are making. Complete
    sceletons with backbones in tact. Dinosaurs must have been buried by some
    kind of an upheaval such as a volcano that is now extinct. I believe the
    man was originally plowing his fields when he saw protruding through the ground something that resembled giant scales that were pointing straight up. When he dug a bit he found it was a burial trench and he
    got the national museum people to check it out. They are constantly finding more and more sceletons of various types on the land. Footprints that were originally thought to belong to a giant extinct Dodo were actually dinosaur prints. Australian channel news comes here
    on cable TV at 5:00 pm. By putting the channel on between 4:30 pm and
    five sometimes they show the dinosaur dig going on as Rebel films, just
    ten or fifteen minute shows from SBS television. 5/7/2009.
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