Lightning Ridge – a hot, semi-arid outpost in western NSW – is known today as the Home of the Black Opal, but it wasnt always this way. 100 million years ago, it was a floodplain near an enormous inland see, where sauropods, ferocious theropods and diminutive plant-eaters roamed. You can have the opportunity to uncover this lost world with the Australian Geographic Society Scientific Expedition Lightning Ridge Fossil Dig. The dig, guided by leading experts such as UNEs Dr Phil Bell who has uncovered and studied dinosaurs around the globe, is looking to uncover opalised fossils. Interested? Get the details here:
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 00:25:50 +0000
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