Matilda Walkabout Tag

To travel to all known Dinosaurs sites in Australia and the world, hopefully catching up with her friends Bango TB3YJDW and Clancy TB3Y39W along the way and then come home to Winton, Queensland, Australia.

Matilda (Diamantinasaurus matildae) was a giant plant eating sauropods, new type of titanosaurs (Dinosaur), which was the largest animal to ever walk the earth. Matilda was a solid and robust animal, filling a niche similar to the hippopotamus today.
The Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History is near Winton in Queensland, Australia where Matilda is on display, along with Bango and Clancy. Theyare nicknamed after characters from a world-famous, Australian poet. Banjo Patterson composed Waltzing Matilda in 1885 in Winton, where the song was also first performed (and where the fossils were discovered). Waltzing Matilda is now considered to be Australia’s national song.
 
In a quirky twist of fate, the song Waltzing Matilda describes the unfortunate demise of a swag-man, who steals a jumbuck (sheep) but is driven to leap into a billabong (an Australian word for a small oxbow lake) to avoid being captured by the police. He ends up drowning in the billabong alongside the stolen sheep.
Banjo and Matilda were found buried together in what turns out to be a 98-million-year-old billabong. Whether they died together or got stuck in the mud together remains a mystery; however, echoing the song, both predator and possible prey met their end at the bottom of a billabong, 98 million years ago. This shows that processes that were working in the area over the last 98 million years are still there today. Billabongs are a built-in part of the Australian mind, because we associate them with mystery, ghosts and monsters.

You can get additional information at: http://australianageofdinosaurs.com/dino-diamantinasaurus.php