clive palmer's beloved dinosaur jeff has been destroyed in a fire at his coolum resort a fire crew arrived the sunshine coast dinosaur park on tuesday at 140am after reports the nine metre mechanical lizard was ablaze the palmer united party leader confirmed that jeff is now extinct and that the 'cause of death' was due to an electrical fault initially, police had investigated if the fire was intentionally lit scroll down for video  extinct: the charred skeleton of jeff the t rex on wednesday morning his owner, clive palmer, confirmed that he was destroyed after an electrical fault sparked a fire  pick the dinosaur: clive palmer and jeff the t rex in happier times, posing together at the palmer resort in coolum in december 2012  golfers walk past jeff in 2012 on the australian pga course at clive palmer's resort cum dinosaur park  'jeff the dinosaur's body has been burnt out,' a spokesman for mr palmer confirmed 'the fire department and police are completing their inspections this morning and the area is cordoned off to prevent access 'jeff will be dismantled and taken away once we have received clearance from the fire and police departments' he was apparently too devastated to comment further when personally contacted by the sunshine coast daily at 121am emergency services received a call claiming that 'a dinosaur was on fire' at 121am emergency services received a call claiming that 'a dinosaur was on fire' crews extinguished the fire in 20 minutes but were unable to save the dinosaur, which was 95% destroyed the dinosaur's skeleton, a metal frame, is all that remains the resort is the largest dinosaur park in the world with more than 150 specimens on display chinese import jeff was the pinnacle of the display with moving limbs and simulated breathing and growling it weighed in at around 17 tonnes and is 20 metres in length mr palmer allegedly named the mechanical giant after queensland's former deputy premier, jeff seeney following a disagreement mr seeney was contacted by daily mail australia for comment following the death of his namesake mr palmer allegedly named the mechanical giant after queensland's former deputy premier, jeff seeney following a disagreement 
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clive palmer's beloved dinosaur, t rex jeff, has been destroyed in a fire  the palmer united leader owns a coolum resort which is also the world's largest dinosaur park  jeff was an eight metre tall mechanical dinosaur with moving limbs and simulated breathing and growling  his 'death' was a result of an electric fault which caused a spark  reportedly named after former queensland deputy premier jeff seeney 