While notices of businesses going into receivership are not usually moments of celebration, we can’t help but be intrigued by this in today’s AFR, advertising “20 animatronic dinosaur units”. “Specially designed, museum quality exhibits, previously displayed in major exhibitions by museums in Western Australia and most recently in Queensland,” reads the advertisement. The description sounds eerily similar to Clive Palmer’s dinosaurs, which filled the Palmer Coolum Resort, or Palmersaurus, as it came to be known. Palmersaurus closed down earlier this year after it failed to draw crowds — are these dinosaurs victims of the collapse? We made multiple calls to the receivers this morning to find out about the dinosaurs’ recent history, but didn’t hear back by deadline.

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