Big Kev the Palmerston dinosaur could face extinction

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Big Kev the Palmerston dinosaur could face extinction
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The fate of a fibreglass dinosaur hangs in the balance after the site's new owner, Bunnings, announces it will dismantle the prehistoric Palmerston landmark.

The fate of a fibreglass dinosaur hangs in the balance after the site's new owner, superstore Bunnings, announced it would dismantle the prehistoric Palmerston landmark.After 12 years standing sentinel on the Stuart Highway, Big Kev's days appear to be numberedResidents take to ABC Darwin's Facebook page to lament the impending loss

For more than a decade, Big Kev has amused and puzzled those travelling in and out of Darwin on the Stuart Highway — an odd reminder of theThe Jurassic sentinel is being stood down not in a powerful blast, but piece by piece, just as he arrived 12 years ago, on special order from Asia for Finlay's Stone Masonry in Yarrawonga near Palmerston.

Until his dismantling on Thursday, for many months the giant model struck a lonely figure, a stranded Loch Ness monster on a vacant dirt block.

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