Australian Museum
Audio Tour
Prehistoric Hunt
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Welcome to the Prehistoric Hunt, make your way around the Museum to find all 13 prehistoric figurines hidden throughout the galleries.
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Jobaria [jo-bar-ee-uh]
Jobaria is a huge herbivorous dinosaur that lived during the Middle or Late Jurassic 167-161 million years ago.
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Pterosaur [teh-ruh-saw]
Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight and are a close cousin of the dinosaurs who evolved on a separate branch of the reptile family tree.
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Tylosaurus [tie-low-saw-ruhs]
The Tylosaurus lived during the Late Cretaceous about 92-66 million years ago.
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Therizinosaurus [thera-zee-no-saw-ruhs]
The Therizinosaurus, lived in Mongolia during the Late Cretaceous about 70 million years ago.
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Mosasaurus [mow-zuh-saw-ruhs]
The Mosasaurus is an extinct aquatic reptile related to lizards and snakes found worldwide during the Late Cretaceous 82-66 million years ago.
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Triceratops [tri-seh-ruh-tops]
The Triceratops lived during the Late Cretaceous about 68-66 million years ago.
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Pteranodon [tuh-ran-uh-don]
The Pteranodon was a huge flying reptile that lived about 86-84 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous.
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Archaeopteryx [ark-ee-op-tur-ikhs]
The Archaeopteryx was a small bird-like dinosaur that lived about 150-148 million years ago, during the Late Jurassic.
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Kaprosuchus [kap-roe-soo-kuss]
The Kaprosuchus was a reptile that lived in the Late Cretaceous 95 million years ago and its name means 'boar crocodile' after its teeth and head shape.
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Iguanodon [ig-wah-nuh-don]
The Iguanodon most likely could move on two or four legs and lived 126-122 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous.
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Muttaburrasaurus [mutt-ah-buh-rah-saw-rus]
The Muttaburrasaurus is one of Australia's very own dinosaurs and was found near the town of Muttaburra in central Queensland.
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Stegosaurus [steh-guh-saw-ruhs]
The Stegosaurus was an armoured, four-legged herbivore that lived in the Late Jurassic 155-145 million years ago.
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Tarbosaurus [tar-bow-saw-ruhs]
The Tarbosaurus was a large carnivorous theropod dinosaur from southern Mongolia and China, which roamed the Earth around 70 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous.
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