Banjo Walkabout Tag

To travel to all known Dinosaurs sites in Australia and the world, hopefully catching up with my friends Matilda TB3YJ7G and Clancy TB3Y39W along the way and then come home to Winton, Queensland, Australia.

Bango  was a carnivorous theropod (Dinosaur) with razor sharp teeth, three large slashing claws on each hand and had great speed. This is the most complete meat-eating dinosaur skeleton ever found in Australia.
His scientific name is (Australovenator wintonensis) He was two metres from the hip, six metres long and built for speed a cheetah of his time.

The Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History is near Winton in Queensland, Australia where Bango is on display, along with Matildaand Clancywho are 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.

For more information, you can go to: http://australianageofdinosaurs.com/dino-australovenator.php