Fluffy’s a head of her time: [1 – All-round Country Edition]
Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 18 June 2003: 6.
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Workers spent yesterday taking the skeleton apart and packing it in boxes ready to be sent from her long-time home at the Australian Museum in Sydney to a new museum being built in the central western NSW town of Bathurst. No one is quite sure whether Fluffy, valued at more than $200,000, is male or female, but staff at the museum affectionately refer to Fluffy as “she”.
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FLUFFY, Australia’s only full-size Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton cast, is going bush.
Workers spent yesterday taking the skeleton apart and packing it in boxes ready to be sent from her long-time home at the Australian Museum in Sydney to a new museum being built in the central western NSW town of Bathurst. No one is quite sure whether Fluffy, valued at more than $200,000, is male or female, but staff at the museum affectionately refer to Fluffy as “she”.
“We are all going to miss Fluffy,” said one of the exhibition’s project officers, Mike Dingley. “The public like to see dinosaurs and she has been in a great position near the restaurant,”
Fluffy’s enormous skull attracted lots of stares as it was being taken down and moved.
It no doubt will create plenty more when it goes on display at the front of its new home this coming weekend.
The deputy director of the Australian Museum, Patrick Filmer- Sankey, said Fluffy had been a great part of the museum. “We don’t want to see her go,” he said. “She is a very well-known dinosaur.”
Mr Filmer-Sankey said Fluffy originally had been dug up in North America during the late 19th century.