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‘Hoons’ put Outback residents at risk GLENDAMBO…Local ‘hoons’ have threatened the safety of Glendambo residents by “ripping up” the community’s airstrip with their motor vehicles, according to the Glendambo Progress Association. “It’s a very important lifeline for the town that’s been jeopardised through the actions of some morons,” Glendambo Progress Association chair and long-time local resident Sue Sandars told The Monitor. “The thing is, if the airstrip is unusable – if someone needs to be flown up, if there’s an accident or snakebite - that person’s stuffed,” she said. “Let’s just hope it’s not their life that depends on the airstrip being useable, or that they are responsible for someone else’s death through such a stupid act.” Glendambo Progress Association will now contract someone to grade and roll the airstrip before the RFDS can use it safely, Ms Sandars told The Monitor. “There’s acres and acres of land for these people to go be revheads – why destroy something so important? “It’s not just happening here, it must be happening in a lot of small areas. Continued on Page 4...
FOSSIL FIND...Local amateur fossil hunters Tom and Sharon Hurley display some of the pieces from their collection including icthyosaur vertebrae and fossilised fish.
Fossil hunters’ big find ANDAMOOKA...A find by local amateur fossil hunters may change the face of Australian palaeontology. Long-time Andamooka residents Tom and Sharon Hurley believe they have discovered a new species of pleisiosaur while fossil-hunting in western Qld earlier this year with long-time collector ‘Dinosaur Dick’ Suter and palaeontologist Ben Kear. “It was found during our May dig this year - we were all out looking and I just happened to find the end of the nose and these inch-long teeth sticking out of the rock,” Mr Hurley told The Monitor. “To find something like this, the head of a 10m
pleisiosaur - it’s the holy grail of Australian palaeontology. I felt about 12 feet tall.” During the dig, fossil-hunters found dozens of marine specimens including icthyosaurs, sharks and fragments of an armoured dinosaur. While it will take more than 12 months to confirm whether the long-necked dinosaur specimen is actually a new species of pleisiosaur, the find has already prompted new interest in the field of marine reptiles from the Early Cretaceous period. Locally, Tom and Sharon Hurley are working on a proposal to showcase their own family collection in Roxby Downs.
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