EMU RIDGE GALLERY CREW

Emu Ridge Gallery, the famous fossils & gemstones museum with the ONLY life-size Allosaurus in all of Queensland.

Owners of Emu Ridge Gallery, Chris Maaten and Shane Hebbard, have been collecting for many years and often go to Mt. Surprise, their most fondest areas for fossiking.
Mt. Surprise is widely known to obtain smokey quartz, topaz and even aquamarine, an aquamarine with a brilliant colour is a prized possession of Chris and Shane, soon to be displayed at Emu Ridge Gallery.

INVESTIGATOR PALEONTOLOGISTS

Chris Maaten explained, "The cast is so well done that when it arrived in pieces in a box to Australia, Customs called in paleontologists from Brisbane Museum to check if actual dinosaur bones were being illegally imported".
These paleontologists were making news all over Kuranda and Cairns, even to the Cairns Post! Inevitably, the paleontologists soon found that the dinosaur was in fact a replica.