NB: Council wishes to advise that engineering advice has confirmed that an internal rammed earth wall is showing signs of rotating and as such the Dinosaur Stampede National Monument will remain closed until further action is taken to ensure the area is safe for use.
Council is also in the process of approaching both State and Federal Government agencies and their respective Ministers to obtain a financially sustainable outcome for the Dinosaur Stampede National Monument. At the end of March we will be able to advise further regarding a time when the Dinosaur Stampede will be able to reopen to the public. Please check this space again at the beginning of April 2012 for further information regarding the Dinosaur Stampede reopening.
Lark Quarry, in outback Australia, is currently the only recorded dinosaur stampede on earth. In this place, around 95 million years ago, a large herd of small two legged dinosaurs gathered on the banks of a forest lake to drink.
The herd was stalked by a large Theropod – four tonnes of sharp-clawed, meat-eating dinosaur. The herd panicked, stampeding across the muddy flats to escape the Theropod’s hungry jaws.
A record of those few terrifying minutes is cast in more than 3300 fossilised footprints. The footprints tell us about a cooler, wetter world, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and the mammal’s time is yet to come.
