Dig It Up with Dr G

17/07/2018

After a month in the wilderness, we're back and open for business!

14/06/2018

Hi folks, Dig It Up will be temporarily closed from this weekend for around a month. Any last minute orders, be sure to get them in soon!

09/03/2018

When is a dinosaur a dinosaur?

While some researchers question what characteristics define the dinosaurs, others are uprooting the dino family tree altogether.

06/03/2018

Some epic Aussie geology!

I’d like to pretend I included Maria Island on my Tasmanian itinerary because of a curios­ity to learn more about Australia’s convict history and a desire to gaze learnedly at its ancient geology. But I must confess it’s really the lure of wombats.

05/03/2018

Our special archaeology brushes are back in stock- perfect for clearing away loose sediment from your excavation.

02/03/2018

One of our favourites is back in stock: Keson mini-rods. Perfect for field photos plus a whole bunch more!

The Keson mini-rod is essentially a scale bar / range pole that fits in your pocket. It is ridgid enough that you can hold it up vertically as a range pole-type scale in the field, and is perfect as a scale bar for logging and photographing cores.

27/02/2018

Bin chickens and T-rexes... What's not to love about the latest research in palaeontology?!

While the movement of dinosaurs that walked on two legs has caused controversy, scientists have devised an equation that calculates how the extinct giants roamed.

27/02/2018

Pleased to let you know that our Rite In The Rain metric notebooks are back in stock!

Rite in the Rain fabrikoid bound book (metric): This is the only type of note book that I have ever used in the field. It has a tough, bound fabrikoid cover that promises not to fall apart on you. It is printed on a high-quality water resistant all-weathe

26/02/2018

Planet Earth's first master artists? Fascinating new insights into the art of the Neanderthal...

The world's oldest-known rock art — simple red ochre ladders, dots and hand stencils — was created by Neanderthals, a new study suggests.

23/07/2017

Some extraordinary Aussie geology! http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-07-22/five-places-that-mark-australias-extreme-geological-past/8728928

If you know where to look you'll find gravity warps, cataclysmic craters, supervolcanoes and spectacular underwater canyons.

20/07/2017

Incredible new study just out on the age of Indigenous colonisation in Australia! This also has so many implications for other contemporary debates in Australian science, including what happened to the megafauna. It's now time to say bye bye to the blitzkrieg hypothesis that suggests that the megafauna were wiped out in the blink of an eye by Australia's first peoples after they arrived here.

New excavations of a rock shelter near Kakadu National Park indicate humans reached Australia at least 65,000 years ago — up to 18,000 years earlier than previously thought.

29/06/2017

I wonder what Darwin would say if he saw the amazing technologies that now exist!

What has a body like a humpless camel, legs like a skinny rhino, and a face like the short-trunked saiga antelope? Until only recently, the accepted...