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Fossil Detectives visit the Museum
Adventures of a Palaeontologist
Fossil Facts
Fossil
Detectives visit the Museum
Virtual visit to the South Australian Museum with Imogen and Harriet, two young fossil detectives. Discover a gum tree turned to stone, a T rex skull, a giant wombat-like marsupial called Diprotodon and the extraordinary opalised skeleton of a plesiosaur. And much more!
(Suitable for Early Years and Primary Years)
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Discover more about life of the past in South Australia.
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What kinds of animals and plants used to live here!
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How did they evolve/change when the environment changed?
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What caused some animals to become extinct while others survived?
- What will life be like in the future?
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Return of the Plesiosaur
Travel back in time and take a short, cold swim in the Eromanga Sea.
Discover a plesiosaur hunting belemnites and collecting drop-stones. Keep an eye out for the ichthyosaurs!
Adventures of a palaeontologist
Travel back in time and discover bizarre flat worms, armour-plated predators, giant wombat-like marsupials, or the monstrous megalodon, a giant shark. You can use the map of South Australia to find fossils of these remarkable extinct animals that lived here in the past.
Coming soon ...