Dinosaurs have been the
most spectacular creatures
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that have ever lived.
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They have been an intense source
of fascination for many people
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both young and old love the
adventure of finding our more
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about these prehistoric giants
that once roamed the earth.
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Fortunately, Outback
Queensland has a whole lot of
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prehistoric history to discover.
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So, let's go on a journey
along Australia's Dinosaur Trail
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that offers visitors a
range of unique experiences
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not available
anywhere else in the world.
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This unique journey is going
to be an amazing experience
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so join me Gary Kent, in
our quest to find out more
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about the
dinosaurs of Australia.
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I can't wait to see
what we'll find as we visit
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Outback Queensland.
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Our first stop on the
search for dinosaurs is Winton,
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a town that's actually
called "The Dinosaur Capital
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of Australia. "It's
also the birthplace of the
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iconic
Australian Airline Quanta's
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and where the legend of a
jolly swagman waltzed into
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Australia's history.
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Winton is located in
the Australian Outback
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about 1,350 kilometers or
840 miles northwest of Brisbane
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so it takes a
long time to get here.
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But if you are searching for
dinosaurs, then it's definitely
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worth the trip because on
the outskirts of Winton is the
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Australian Age
of Dinosaurs Museum.
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It's the home of Australia's
largest dinosaur fossil
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collection and the southern
hemisphere's most productive
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fossil preparation laboratory
and supervises the site of the
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the world's only
evidence of a dinosaur stampede.
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The Age of Dinosaurs Museum
is fit between three facilities.
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The fossil preparation
laboratory, the collection room,
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and Dinosaur Canyon.
Here in the collection room
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the side reception, you can
see the real dinosaur skeletons
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on display. This collection room
houses the only known specimen
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of Australia's largest and most
complete carnivorous dinosaur.
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Australovenator which
in essence nicknamed Banjo,
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there's also Australia's most
complete Sauropod Dimattinas
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Saurus Matilda nicknamed
Matilda, and Savannasarus
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elliotiorum nicknamed "Wade."
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It's truly an awe
inspiring collection.
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So, let's find out the
story about how the dinosaurs
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and the fossils
were first discovered.
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David Elliot is a
third generation grazier
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who'd been farming sheep and
cattle properties around Winton
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from the age of 17. In 1999,
while mustering sheep on his
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property Belmont near Winton,
Elliot discovered a large
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fossilized bone of a dinosaur.
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I found probably the biggest
best dinosaur by North Sound
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it was just big chunks of
bone and (undistinguishable)
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I had him here for a couple
of years, we couldn't put him
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all together (undistinguishable)
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and identify it as a big source
by sight and it made a fairly
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big media release, it was a
fairly large. It was supposed
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to be Australia's largest
at the time and really...
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but that's okay and it's
still not, but that's okay
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It was sort of a big start for
us you know cause we realized
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how excited people around
the country got over this stuff.
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Following the discovery of
more fossils during digs held in
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conjunction with the Queensland
Museum, David and his wife Judy
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called a public meeting in
Winton on the 17th of August
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2002. They hope to establish
a Dinosaur Museum at Winton
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so the discoveries could
be preserved in perpetuity and
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be made available to
the public in general.
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A few years later in March 2005
David discovered more dinosaur
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bones on his property.
In September of that year
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the site was excavated
by a joint Australian Age of
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Dinosaurs and the
Queensland Museum team.
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During the dig they
uncovered one of the remains of
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Australia's most
complete Sauropod skeletons,
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but was even more exciting was
that the skeleton belonged to a
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completely new type of dinosaur,
it was given the scientific name
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Savannasarus Elliottorum
after the open grasslands where
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it was found in
the Elliot family.
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The new discovery was nicknamed
Wade in honor of a prominent
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Australian paleontologist,
Dr. Mary Wade who died
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at the time the dig
was being undertaken.
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Wade, the Savannasaru
was found to be a medium-size
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Titanosaurs approximately a
half of a length of a basketball
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court with a long neck
and a relatively short tail.
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Later that year a partial
Sauropod humorous was discovered
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nearby on Elderslie
Station near Winton.
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This led to a series
of digs held by the museum
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and the recovery of two more
dinosaur skeletons preserved
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together, one being a Sauropod
skeleton as we've noted called
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Matilda and the other a
Theropod a carnivirous dinosaur
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called Banjo. Here he is, named
after the famous Australian
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poet Banjo Patterson.
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In mid-2006 David and Judy
Elliot opened an Australian
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Age of Dinosaurs temporary
fossil preparation facility
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in their shed at Belmont
which was known locally as
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The Prep Shed.
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It was here that fossil
preparation was carried out
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by a small group of staff and
volunteers who were accommodated
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in the station's
Jackaroo and Sheriff's quarters.
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Prep work and cleaning commenced
on Wade the Savannasarus fossil
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and the expanded to include
the bones of Banjo, and Matilda
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as each dig proved further
fossils, this work continued
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for almost three years with
the help of over 100 volunteers.
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In September 2006 Peter
and Carol Briton, owners of
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Mount Lansbury Station near
Winton donated 1,400 hectares
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of Mesa country or what
the locals call the Jump-up
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to Australian age of dinosaurs
as a sight for the future
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museum. The prep shed of Belmont
was then closed and all the
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fossils and equipment were
relocated to the Jump-up site
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in early 2009. The new
facilities were open to the
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public in July that same year
as part of Queensland's 150th
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year celebrations.
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This multi-million
working dinosaur museum facility
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has a preparation laboratory,
a collection room, classrooms,
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theaters, and display rooms.
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There are also a wide range
of outdoor displays, dioramas,
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walking trails,
and guided tours.
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So, let's start at the
fossil preparation laboratory,
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here we get to see behind
the scenes of one of the most
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productive fossil preparation
laboratories in the southern
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hemisphere. Jessie, one of the
tour guides at the museum and
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lab will explain to
us what happens here.
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When we cut open our jackets,
we'll find our bones breaking
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into some combination of big
solid chunks and little smashed
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bits as well as the most biggest
frustrating jigsaw puzzle
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where half the pieces are
missing and we don't even have
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the lid from the box to
know what to make it look like
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when we are done.
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So when we find the bits
that go together we want them to
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to stay together, so we glue
them into place, for the big
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chunks we use some type
of fluid that some people
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might have used at home called
heraldic, for little pieces
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we use this really high-tech
paleontological adhesive called
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super-glue -we get little
tubes that works just fine.
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And our bones are also
be covered in rock and dirt,
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we need to get to get the
off so we can see the bone
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that we are working
with and to do that we are
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mostly use air tools.
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Here at the workstations
in the lab, you can watch the
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fossil technicians prepare
dinosaur bones for research
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and display. Well what I'm
doing is following color change
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looking for texture and content
and trying to identify where
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the bone is sitting. So on this
material we have a lot of clay,
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plant material, and limestone
staining so I'm following
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material and I'm
looking for the characteristics
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of fossilized bone.
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I love this kind of work because
you are discovering something
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new every day, every
specimen we get is unique,
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it's never boring, it's
never really repetitive and
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it is just fascinating.
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The museum already has
the world's largest collection
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of bones from
Australia's biggest dinosaurs
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and the number of specimens
already collected is easily
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outpacing the number
being prepared by volunteers
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and staff here
in the laboratory.
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So, if working with fossils is
something you would like to do,
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then there is the
Prep Dino Experience,
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you can join the team
here and learn how to prepare
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real dinosaur
fossils for display.
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And finally, if you really
want to have an incredible
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dinosaur experience, then you
could join the Digger Dino Team
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from here and help
them find more dinosaurs in
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Outback, Queensland.
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But now, let's catch a shuttle
for two kilometers to the
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Dinosaur Canyon and see
the Gondwana Observatory
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and the march of
the Titanosaurs Exhibit.
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Inside the March of
the Titanosaurs building
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is a 54-meter or 170 foot long
Sauropod footprint track site
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the footprints are of a
family or herd of sauropods
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walking through mud and
also includes some two-legged
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meat-eating
dinosaurs called theropods and
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two-legged plant-eating
dinosaurs called ornithopods.
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Just outside are two
magnificent life-size sauropods
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overlooking the
fabulous Dinosaur Canyon.
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In this beautiful place
are exhibits that recreate
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dinosaur life. You can see
the bones of the large sauropod,
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a stampede of 24 small dinosaurs
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leaping across a chasm
to escape a larger theropod
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dinosaur, and three life-size
models of kunbarrasaurus
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an armor-plated
dinosaur. Nearby is the Gondwana
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Staff's Observatory which
showcases the extraordinary
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dark skies above the Age of
Dinosaurs here at the Jump-up.
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Without the city lights
you get a simply amazing view
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of the night sky, you can
clearly see planets and stars
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and constellations.
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Now the last place to visit
near winter is the one place
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I've always wanted to see,
The Dinosaur Stampede National
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Monument at Lark Quarry
and finally, I've made it.
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But to get to the site
we've had to drive off the
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beaten track 110 kilometers
or 70 miles west of Winton.
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Here at The Dinosaur Stampede
National Monument at Lark Quarry
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Conservation Park, we have
the only evidence anywhere in
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the world of a dinosaur stampede
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so what we had towards
the back of the building was
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the lake, and we had some small
dinosaurs, some allosaurus and
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ornithopods dinosaurs that
were at the edge of that lake
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maybe having a drink of
water until they were disturbed
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by something. So the footprints
we have here eleven large
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predator footprints heading
towards that lake and then about
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3,300 smaller footprints all
running the opposite direction
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which would have been
towards open temperate forest
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that was about 150 meters
from here so their running
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for cover where they might
be able to hide and maybe not
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get eaten by a
large predator dinosaur.
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From Lock Quarry and the
Dinosaur Stampede we continue
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along the dinosaur trail
200 kilometers north of Winton
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to another outback town called
Richmond where some amazing
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ancient fossils have been found.
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The first thing you see here
at Kronosaurus Corner Museum
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in Richmond is this huge
marine reptile with its mouth
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wide open, it's
actually a Kronosaurus,
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a large apex predator
that could grow up to 10 meters
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or 33 feet in
length and how appropriate.
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You see Richmond is best
known as Australia's premium
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marine fossil site and has
some of the most awe-inspiring
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ancient marine fossils,
this area is rich in fossils.
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and this museum is
home to over 1,500 of them.
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Here you can step back in time
to where much of this area was
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underwater and meet
the carnivorous creatures
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that dominated the
life below the surface.
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This small outback town with the
population of around 800 people
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came to the attention
of Australia and the world
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in 1989 when the skeleton
of plesiosaur was discovered
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nearby Marathon Station
by Grazier Inn Ivers while
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mastering his cattle.
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It's one of the best preserved
vertebrae fossils in the world
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and the most complete plesiosaur
skeleton discovered in Australia
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This amazing completeness
gives us a window into the life
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of this amazing creature.
Scientists are still studying
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this skeleton and the species
currently has no scientific name
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but it's been nicknamed
Kenny, the Richmond plesiosaur.
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It was about five
meters or 16 feet in length
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and had a relatively long neck
and head, the skull is robust
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and contains many
conical teeth presumably for
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feeding on fish and
squid which were abundant
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in Australia's inland vast sea
which covered much of this area
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in ancient times. It has four
long flippers for propelling
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and steering it
through the water.
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It's important to remember
that these marine reptiles
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we're not dinosaurs even though
many of them coexisted with
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dinosaurs. Originally much
of this particular specimen
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was encased in sedimentary rock,
it took two lab specialists
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over two years full-time
to prepare and remove the
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fragile bones from the rock.
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Now Penny the Richmond
plesiosaur was the second
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major discovery of an
important fossil in this area.
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The famous Kronosaurus
queenslandicus a 10 meter
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or 33 feet giant reptile
was discovered north of Richmond
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60 years earlier in 1929
by a team of paleontologists
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from Harvard University.
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Kronosaurus had a
short neck and large head,
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Its skull was 2.5
meters or eight feet long,
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it was a fierce
predator that used its two-meter
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or six-foot flippers to propel
itself quickly through the
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water. It had rows of long
conical teeth that it use to
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hunt large fish, turtles and
giant squid as well as
ammonites, giant shellfish.
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It was equipped with
enormous crocodile like jaws
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that had twice as much bite
force as a saltwater crocodile
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today. Certainly not the kind
of creature you'd want to have
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splashing about in
the water with you.
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The fossil of another giant
marine reptile was found in 2005
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here in the area around
Richmond, Eromangasaurus
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Australis was a large plesiosaur
named after the vast Australian
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inland sea that it lived in.
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It's about 10 meters or 33 feet
long and like other Plesiosaurs
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had four flippers to
propel it through the water
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with a short
round tail and no fin.
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It had an incredibly long
neck about half the length
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of its entire body, it's the
only known skeleton of its kind
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to exist in the world, the
museum also exhibits wonder.
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This is the largest fish fossil
in Australia, you know with all
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these magnificent ancient
fish and marine reptile fossils
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we mustn't forget the special
dinosaur fossils found near here
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as well.
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This is kunbarrasaurus ieversi
which means shield lizard
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it's a plant-eating
dinosaur with short legs and
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bony body armor made up of
hundreds of tiny bony plates
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interlaced with larger plates
to protect it from predators.
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The fossil is affectionately
known as The Armored Car of
00:19:16.28\00:19:21.72
Marathon Sheep
Station where it was found by
00:19:21.76\00:19:24.66
Grazier Ian Ivers in
1989. Now Ivers had discovered
00:19:24.69\00:19:30.90
one of the most complete
dinosaur skeletons ever found
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in Australia, or the
world for that matter
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even the stomach contents
of the creature were preserved
00:19:37.51\00:19:41.54
which is exceptionally
rare and gives us an insight
00:19:41.58\00:19:45.38
of the food the dinosaur
ate which was a selection of
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flowering plants.
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Sometimes fossils are
covered by sandstone or mudstone
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which needs to be
removed and cleaned away
00:19:56.79\00:19:59.79
and many of these fossils
are prepared and processed
00:19:59.83\00:20:02.73
right here at the museum in
the fully equipped laboratory.
00:20:02.76\00:20:06.87
Here you watch experts
at work with their air tools
00:20:06.90\00:20:10.91
and mechanical drills and
view fossils being processed.
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The equipment and
preparation techniques used here
00:20:14.74\00:20:18.41
are of a world-class standard
with some of Australia's best
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and most significant fossil
finds having been prepared
00:20:22.52\00:20:26.05
for display right here.
00:20:26.09\00:20:27.99
Most of these fossils here
are unearthed in the quarry
00:20:28.02\00:20:32.66
just 12 kilometers or
eight miles out of town.
00:20:32.69\00:20:36.53
Kevin Peters the museum fossil
expert took us out to show us
00:20:36.56\00:20:42.20
his latest find, a
magnificent Ichthyosaurus fossil
00:20:42.24\00:20:46.84
still encased in rock but
clearly showing the outline
00:20:46.88\00:20:50.38
of this huge dolphin-like
aquatic reptile skeleton.
00:20:50.41\00:20:54.45
This quarry is a fossil
gold mine and is given up it's
00:20:54.48\00:20:59.85
hidden secrets as Kevin
and his fellow fossil hunters
00:20:59.89\00:21:03.63
continue the search
for ancient treasure
00:21:03.66\00:21:08.56
but, it's time to get back
on the road and move on to our
00:21:08.60\00:21:11.53
next destination
on the dinosaur trail.
00:21:11.57\00:21:14.44
Our next stop is
Hushenden about 100 kilometers
00:21:14.47\00:21:18.21
down the road, let's see
what interesting and awesome
00:21:18.24\00:21:21.41
dinosaurs are
waiting for us there.
00:21:21.44\00:21:23.85
And you don't have to travel
far into Hushenden to find one,
00:21:27.52\00:21:30.52
this is Mutt the local dinosaur
that resides beside the town's
00:21:30.59\00:21:35.82
main street. Now Mutt is a
replica of a Muttaburrasaurus
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a huge seven-meter or 22-foot
long plant-eating dinosaur
00:21:40.86\00:21:45.50
that live along the
shores of the ancient Inland Sea
00:21:45.53\00:21:48.70
that once covered this area now
called the Great Artesian Basin.
00:21:48.74\00:21:54.18
Large marine reptiles like the
ones we've seen back in Richmond
00:21:56.21\00:21:58.95
such as Ichthyosaurus and
Plesiosaurs swam here as well,
00:21:58.98\00:22:04.09
while on land dinosaurs like
the Muttaburrasaurus browsed on
00:22:04.12\00:22:09.76
vegetation along the shore.
00:22:09.79\00:22:12.03
A short distance further along
the road the Flinders Discovery
00:22:12.06\00:22:17.33
Center provides more
information and exhibits of
00:22:17.37\00:22:22.47
Muttaburrasaurus. The star
attraction here is Hughie a
00:22:22.50\00:22:27.41
life-size skeletal replica
of a Muttaburrasaurus. In 1962 a
00:22:27.44\00:22:33.95
well-preserved skeleton of a
Muttaburrasaurus was found near
00:22:33.98\00:22:38.15
an outback town called
Muttaburra where it gets its
00:22:38.19\00:22:41.59
name from. The bones were
preserved because the carcasses
00:22:41.62\00:22:46.49
had been washed into the
sea and became buried in the mud
00:22:46.53\00:22:49.63
which protected
them from destruction.
00:22:49.66\00:22:52.17
In a sense these
bones from the ancient past
00:22:52.20\00:22:56.91
now helped bring
these magnificent dinosaurs
00:22:56.94\00:23:00.48
back to life by giving us
an insight into their size,
00:23:00.51\00:23:05.01
body structure,
diet, and way of life.
00:23:05.05\00:23:08.92
Thousands of fossils of
many different species of
00:23:08.95\00:23:12.95
ancient creatures are on
display here at the center
00:23:12.99\00:23:16.26
including Sauropods,
Ammonites, and Ichthyosaurs.
00:23:16.29\00:23:21.40
Hughenden situated on the banks
of Queensland's longest river
00:23:23.67\00:23:27.30
the Flinders is a
fabulous place to marvel at
00:23:27.34\00:23:30.94
and learn about these
magnificent fossils as well as
00:23:30.97\00:23:34.78
experience the true
spirit of the Outback,
00:23:34.81\00:23:38.68
here our journey into
the world of dinosaurs ends
00:23:38.71\00:23:42.92
but certainly not our interest
and fascination in these
00:23:42.95\00:23:46.76
great creatures
of the ancient past.
00:23:46.79\00:23:49.29
Dinosaurs have
certainly captured our attention
00:23:51.86\00:23:54.80
and imagination on our
journey along the Dinosaur Trail
00:23:54.83\00:23:58.80
in Outback Queensland and
given us a renewed and ongoing
00:23:58.83\00:24:02.87
zeal for fossils. We've
seen the fossils of some of the
00:24:02.90\00:24:07.31
magnificent dinosaurs that
roamed here in the ancient past.
00:24:07.34\00:24:11.71
We've seen that they come in
an incredible array of shapes
00:24:11.75\00:24:16.79
and sizes, some of these ancient
creatures had enormous bodies
00:24:16.82\00:24:22.06
and were the most colossal
creatures ever to have lived
00:24:22.09\00:24:25.53
on this continent while others
were only the size of birds.
00:24:25.56\00:24:30.37
Some were fierce and had
slashing claws and bone-crushing
00:24:30.43\00:24:35.20
teeth while others
were harmless and docile.
00:24:35.24\00:24:38.51
Many of them had spikes, horns,
plates and frills and were
00:24:38.54\00:24:44.18
the weirdest animals to have
walked on this great south land.
00:24:44.21\00:24:48.85
We've also seen that even
though they are now extinct,
00:24:48.88\00:24:52.45
these ancient creatures continue
to attract our interest and
00:24:52.49\00:24:57.43
captivate our imagination
and in a sense, they unite us
00:24:57.46\00:25:02.83
regardless of our world
view, our religion, culture,
00:25:02.86\00:25:07.00
nationality, dinosaurs bring
people together in the shared
00:25:07.04\00:25:12.11
love of nature, the ancient
past, and natural history.
00:25:12.14\00:25:16.21
And so for me personally,
The Dinosaur Trail ends
00:25:16.24\00:25:22.38
where it all began.
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Right here at the
beginning of all beginnings
00:25:23.79\00:25:27.66
in the very first page of
scripture, In the beginning
00:25:27.69\00:25:31.63
God created the
heavens and the earth.
00:25:31.66\00:25:34.70
God, the master designer,
He made the heaven and earth
00:25:34.73\00:25:40.24
the sea and everything in them,
and that includes dinosaurs,
00:25:40.27\00:25:45.81
the great land reptiles, and
plesiosaurs, the water reptiles.
00:25:45.84\00:25:50.98
And Pterosaurs, the
flying reptiles, in fact,
00:25:51.01\00:25:55.35
they were possibly
among the foremost, the chief,
00:25:55.38\00:25:58.62
the grandest and the most
amazing of all God's creatures.
00:25:58.65\00:26:02.82
No wonder we wonder and stand
in awe of these magnificent
00:26:02.86\00:26:08.26
creatures that once
roamed this great land,
00:26:08.30\00:26:11.27
it's sky and seas.
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Until then, let's pray
to the great Creator God
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who made the dinosaurs
and also made and loves us.
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Dear Heavenly Father
and great Creator God,
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As we've journeyed
along The Dinosaur Trail
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we've been reminded that you are
the majestic and all-powerful
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God who made this world and
all that's in it including the
00:27:54.34\00:27:58.41
dinosaurs. And Lord we
are grateful that even though
00:27:58.47\00:28:02.84
the dinosaurs were magnificent,
You have bestowed Your special
00:28:02.88\00:28:07.22
love and focus on us
and call us your children.
00:28:07.25\00:28:11.69
Thank you! Please guide
our lives and bless us and
00:28:11.72\00:28:16.49
our families. We ask
this in Jesus' name. Amen!
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