Of Deserts and Dinosaurs

The Elliot and Clarens Formations are inordinately rich in dinosaur fossils, preserving a variety of species from the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic Periods, around 210 to 190

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Time and Time Again

Geologists glibly rattle off names like Precambrian, Ordovician, Jurassic and Cretaceous. You will know about the Jurassic thanks to all of those dinosaur movies that have been rolling

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The Dinosaur Renaissance

The Dinosaur Renaissance was driven by a series of remarkable discoveries that offered fresh insights into the lives of these prehistoric giants. Watch the video, or read the

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The Burgess Shale – a Window into an Ancient World

The Burgess Shale formation is a remarkable geological deposit located in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia. This formation, which dates back approximately 508 million years to the

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The Great Oxygen Event

Sitting here in the DinoZone is a special rock. In fact, all of the rocks at the DinoZone are special. However this one in particular has special significance

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Perhaps the Largest Predator

Back in 1944 British bombers flew a mission over Munich, deep in the heart of Germany, and one of their bomb falls on the palaeontology museum which blew

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The Bone Wars

The Bone Wars, waged by Edward Drinker Cope (right) and Othniel Charles Marsh (left) between 1877 and 1892, were both a high and low point in the science

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That Great Treasure Trove of Dinosaur Bones

The Morrison Formation is the greatest treasure trove of dinosaurs ever found. If you were to come up with a random name for any one of the iconic

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The First Plants

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fucus_serratus_2015-09-08_ag_M0010140.jpg The first plants to appear on Earth were seaweeds. They showed up around 1000 million years ago, and compared to the single-celled bacteria and blue green algae

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The DinoZone Dinosaur Park

Visit the DinoZone Dinosaur Park at Piggly WigglyThere is so much fun to be had at the DinoZone Dinosaur Park, situated at Piggly Wiggly on the R103 at Lion's

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