Outlaw
1st February 2005, 09:05 PM
i heard about this a lil while back, it's a Land Rover sponsorship... this is off their website
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>Queensland Museum
Discovering our Past
Land Rover Australia is helping Queensland Museum's Palaeontologists with their ongoing quest to explore, collect and recover Australia and Queensland's precious fossil heritage.
Since 2001 they have unearthed some of Australia's most spectacular dinosaurs, among them Australia's biggest sauropod "Elliot".* Estimated to be have been 16-21 metres long, 3.5-4 metres high at the rump and weighing 22-28 tonnes, Elliot was indeed a massive sauropod.
In 2003 it was discovered Elliot did not die alone.* He had a companion, a second sauropod, whom Australian scientists have named "Mary".* Based on the bones recovered to date, it appears she was approximately half the size of Elliot and is very likely to be the same type of sauropod as Elliot.
Land Rover is assisting in the search for dinosaurs like Elliot and Mary by providing the Department of Palaeontology with the use of a Defender 130 Crew Cab and access to other vehicles for their dig projects and field exploration.
As more of Elliot and Mary's skeletons are still trapped beneath the ground, Land Rover will continue to support this bone breaking work (excuse the pun) of the Queensland Museum Palaeontology Department to bring history alive.[/b][/quote]