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22.01.2022 Worn Art 2020 stars lots of little dinosaurs https://www.dinosaurcoast.org.au/recycling-dinosaurs/
18.01.2022 KIMBERLEY DINOSAURS COME ALIVE IN WHADJUK NYOONGAR COUNTRY We’re very excited to see the Portals to the Past exhibit at the New WA Museum Boola Bardip in Perth coming together. The exhibit features life-sized reconstructions of some of the dinosaurian trackmakers from the Broome Sandstone, including this one that made Oobardjidama foulkesi.
17.01.2022 WHAT DID DINOSAUR SMELL LIKE? HOW BIG WAS A T. REX TOOTH? MORE SCHOOL HOLIDAY DINOSAUR TRACKING SHENANIGANS AT BROOME PUBLIC LIBRARY Dr Steve answered these and all the other questions put to him when we were finally able to connect for our second ‘Dinosaur Track’ school holiday activity at Broome Public Library. He actually had a cast of a real Tyrannosaurus rex tooth to show us! Did you know that, if you want to get an idea of what dinosaur poo was like, you just think of ...the size and smell of a blue tongue lizard’s poo and multiply them by 1000? Because of the technology glitches we’ll try to program another session to explore dinosaur behaviour and learn how to interpret trackways. Thanks to the Broome Public Library Team, Inspiring Western Australia small grant, and of course our volunteers Nadia, Dianne, Leong and Michelle. Photos Nadia Rebasti
11.01.2022 PREVIEW: WA MUSEUM BOOLA BARDIP PORTALS TO THE PAST. Looking forward to seeing the Dinosaur Coast featuring in the new WA Museum Boola Bardip Portals to the Past display. Central to the display is a 16mtr sauropod based on Oobardjidama foulkesi (‘Foulkes’ little thunder’), the only named sauropod track from the Broome Sandstone. Opening on 21st Nov. Come see what makes the Dinosaur Coast so special.... https://www.facebook.com/wamuseum/posts/10157260258127312?notif_id=1603273634030755¬if_t=page_tag&ref=notif
11.01.2022 Broome Public Library School Holiday activities part 3 It was a busy morning recording data like a palaeontologist does. Then the serious business of creating and naming dinosaurs began. The third and final ‘Dinosaur track’ school holiday activity at Broome Public Library was a lot of fun. Thanks to the @broomepubliclibrary Team, @inspiringwa small grant and of course our volunteers, Dianne, Nadia, Leong, Wade and Michelle.... Photos Nadia Rebasti
10.01.2022 Dinosaur Coast presenting at the Notre Dame University Broome. If you are currently in Broome please join us. 12:30pm, Wednesday 4th Nov https://www.dinosaurcoast.org.au/notre-dame-nulungu-dinosa/
08.01.2022 Broome Primary Extension and Academic Challenge students What sort of creative ideas will these students come up with? Their Term 4 project is all about dinosaur tracks so we had fun on the beach and in the Dinosaur Coast Interpretive Display (Broome Historical Museum). Interpretive signs, excursions that have students engaging with the tracks in creative ways or a Fossilise Your Face’ lotion were just some of the ideas tossed around as we walked along the beach. We’d love to see the finished products you never know where fresh ideas might go in 2021. Broome Historical Museum Hannah Carnegie
07.01.2022 NOTICE OF UPCOMING ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
06.01.2022 OPTIMISTIC FOR THE FUTURE OF DINOSAUR TRACKS AT ENTRANCE POINT The DCMG is cautiously optimistic that both the onshore and the offshore National Heritage listed dinosaur tracks at Entrance Point will not be directly impacted by the proposed Broome Boating Facility. But building major structures in a dynamic coastal environment will result in changes (sediment drift and water movements). We look forward to being able to review the Coastal Processes and Hydrodynamic Modelling report when it is finalised.
05.01.2022 ROEBUCK PRIMARY SCHOOL DANCES WITH DINOSAURS It was another glorious day with sparkling water and rock platforms/dinosaur tracks as far as the eye could see when sixty Roebuck Primary School Year 6 students went tracking on Reddell Beach over two days. The tide was still going out when the students arrived so we followed it, and even though the rocks were slippery everyone had the chance to see some theropod tracks. The sauropods were also showing off (well, 130 million years... ago); the ‘party platform’ (so called because there are so many tracks) looked like a collection of circular mirrors as the water reflected the blue sky above. Photos: Michelle Teoh
05.01.2022 BROOME NORTH PRE-PRIMARY LEARN ABOUT DINOSAURS AT ENTRANCE POINT Only in Broome do children have the opportunity to learn about (non-avian) dinosaur tracks on a sandy clean beach, waves gently breaking in the background and birds (avian dinosaurs) calling overhead in the blue sky. Forty Broome North Pre-primary students recently spent some time trying to work out what a sauropod smelt like, drawing ‘their’ dinosaur in the sand, learning how to measure how big a dinosaur is by... the length of its track and looking for Thalassinoides burrows in the red cliffs at Entrance Point. Thanks to a grant from Lotterywest, DCMG volunteers were able to use some of the lower primary excursion learning sequences we have developed. It is important that the activities we do and the way we explain things is age appropriate. Thanks to volunteers Melissa, Nadia, Leong and Michelle. Photographer: Nadia Rebasti.
04.01.2022 Great opportunity to make a dinosaur puppet with professional puppeteers and see your puppet on parade on stage at Theatre Kimberley's Worn Art 2020. https://www.facebook.com/theatrekimberley/posts/5112761405404385
02.01.2022 Science Experiment Dinosaur Tracks Broome Library School Holidays It was a lot of fun exploring how footprints become fossils, and what footprints tell us about the trackmaker. The session started off by looking at pictures of different tracks, discussing what made them, how many legs the trackmaker had and what the trackmaker was doing. Then it was ‘EXPERIMENT TIME’. After collecting a container, clay, roller, a dinosaur and three different coloured pieces of plastic...ine, and using lots of muscle to make layers flat, everyone made a trackway. Then we listened to Dr Steve (short video) explain how sediment layers were made after which is was plasticine rolling time as everyone made their own multi-coloured sediment layers pressing them down hard. The experiments had to dry a bit so we went off to hunt the dinosaurs that had left muddy brown footprints all through the library. Luckily there were plenty of measuring tapes, so everyone had a chance to work out how high the hip of the dinosaur was. Then it was back at the tables to finish the experiment, carefully peeling off the layers of sediment to see if the tracks appeared again. As in nature, some layers came away cleanly and some did not. To conclude some of us made great dinosaur noises to accompany the short video of the Broome beach 130 million years ago. Then budding palaeontologists took their tracks home to paint, on the way out collecting badges, activity books, stickers and information brochures. Thanks to the Broome Library Team, WA Inspiring Australia Scitech small grant, and of course our volunteers Nadia, Leong, Jan and Michelle. Photos Nadia Rebasti
