Rob Gaston News Today

Museums commission the experts at Gaston Studios to fix, cast, and reassemble dinosaur fossils for lifelike displays.

Residents are still living in destroyed homes and desperate for answers.

Three months on from the devastating anniversary floods, some West Auckland residents are still living in destroyed homes and are desperate for answers. Checkpoint reporter Louise Ternouth and camera operator Marika Khabazi went to visit them. 

Moving a 69-million-year-old dinosaur skull requires patience, care, and — it turns out — a little superglue. Thankfully all three were on hand as fossil restorers returned the skull of Pops the Triceratops to its permanent home at the Weld County Administration Building on Tuesday.

Titirangi homeowners told it may take until the end of the year to get a repair quote.

Rob Gaston, 76, and his wife Mila are struggling to come to terms with the damage to their West Auckland home - and how long repairs may take.

An elderly West Auckland couple face many months of living in a storm-damaged house after the Anniversary Weekend flood wrecked walls and a tree punched a hole through the roof.

Wednesday is National Fossil Day. The National Park Service has recognized this annual fossil celebration since 2010. This year, parts of Northern Colorado are joining the party for the first time. They are inspired by Pops the triceratops, who has been the official fossil of Weld County since the mid-1980s.

  / Utahraptor skull reconstruction by Rob Gaston of Gaston Design incorporating some material from the Utahraptor megablock. // Utah Geological Survey Utah lawmakers are considering creating a new state park in celebration of a spectacular find of dinosaur bones. The proposal for Utahraptor State Park, approved by the state House last week and now moving through the Utah Senate, would create a park near the spot where a geology student found a bone sticking out of the sun-bleached grou...