My love of dinosaurs began in 2009 when I visited the Lark Quarry Dinosaur Trackways at Winton in Queensland, and saw the actual footprints of animals that lived some 95 million years ago.
Of course dinosaur discoveries have occurred since the early 1800s, around the world. But recently, on Victoria's Gippsland coast, the fossilised remains of a new species of herbivore dinosaur have been uncovered. This wallaby-sized dinosaur, known as Galleonosaurus dorisae, is 125 million years old.
Interestingly, when this dinosaur was roaming the earth, Australia was still joined to Antarctica and a huge volcanic ridge connected us to New Zealand.
Scientists hope that this latest discovery will help them to understand how Australian dinosaurs fit into the dinosaur family around the planet.
And hopefully I will learn more about this and many other dinosaurs at The Royal Society of Tasmania's A Symposium: Dinosaurs and Evolution of Life this weekend!
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