Lost Creatures Exhibition – Queensland Museum

The “Lost Creatures” exhibition at the Queensland Museum (Australia), has been open for more than five years.  Hasn’t the time flown by.  The exhibition opened in December 2013, its aim was to document the amazing prehistoric creatures that once inhabited this part of Australia.  The skilfully designed displays to be found on level two of the museum, took visitors on a journey from around 250 million years ago to more recent times to meet ancient megafauna such as giant monitor lizards, terrifying marine reptiles and of course, dinosaurs.

The “Lost Creatures” Exhibition at the Queensland Museum (Opening Publicity Photograph)

Picture credit: Queensland Museum

Recently, Everything Dinosaur has produced a number of articles about Australian dinosaur discoveries, ironically, the most recent articles have featured dinosaur fossil finds, not from Queensland but from New South Wales.

To read about a recently described new Australian dinosaur: Have you Herd of Fostoria dhimbangunmal?

For a second article, published this year about Australian dinosaurs:  A New Australian Ornithopod – Galleonosaurus dorisae.

Queensland’s Long-lost Inhabitants

Commenting on the significance of the exhibition when it first opened the Minister for Science, Innovation, Information Technology and the Arts, at the time, Ian Walker stated:

“Lost Creatures tells an epic story of the struggle to survive and reveals which species survived extinction events in Queensland’s distant past.”

Remains of Armoured Dinosaurs on Display

Picture credit: Queensland Museum

More than a Hundred Fossils on Display

The exhibition consists of more than one hundred fossil specimens which combine with beautiful three-dimensional animal reconstructions and fossil casts to bring Queensland’s prehistoric fauna to life.  Star attractions include the giant lizard Megalania, arguably Australia’s most famous dinosaur – Muttaburrasaurus and remains of ancient prehistoric mammals, some of the giant marsupials that dominated “down under”.

Giant Mammals and the Remains of Prehistoric Reptiles

Picture credit: Queensland Museum

Exhibition Highlights

Exhibition highlights include remains of the enormous, prehistoric wombat Diprotodon as well as a life-size reconstruction of the hind leg of the sauropod Rhoetosaurus which stands over two metres high.  In addition, more than ninety square metres of the famed Lark Quarry dinosaur trackways are on display along with a video speculating how the numerous dinosaur tracks might have formed.

When this exhibit first opened it was hailed as one of the most comprehensive overviews of Australia’s ancient megafauna, it is pleasing to see that after nearly six years it is still attracting lots and lots of visitors.

Everything Dinosaur acknowledgs the assistance of the Queensland Museum in the compilation of this article.

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