Category: Dinosaurs
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Dinosaurs: Surviving Extinction exhibition at Newcastle Museum
Dinosaurs: Surviving Extinction exhibition at Newcastle Museum On display until 2 March 2025, the Dinosaurs: Surviving Extinction exhibition at Newcastle Museum (New South Wales, Australia) showcases the latest understanding of dinosaur evolution. Excellent artwork illustrates how palaeontologists think they looked. Fossils of protoceratops and tarbosaurus show how these dinosaurs developed through their lifecycles. Four protoceratops… Read more
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Age of Fishes Museum
Age of Fishes Museum Canowindra Driving north from Canberra, our trip took us through the small New South Wales town of Canowindra. Interestingly, the town has a museum dedicated to the Age of Fishes. Fossils were first found in 1955 when roadworks uncovered a slab of rock with interesting impressions. This was later brought to… Read more
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Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum
Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum Bathurst Driving through Bathurst on our way to the Newnes Industrial ruins we discovered the Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum. Surprised to find such an important collection located in regional New South Wales. The Somerville Collection Containing over 5,000 objects, the collection was the life’s work of Warren Somerville AM.… Read more