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“This discovery and scientific finding will put outback Queensland on the map as one of the world’s leading destinations for dinosaur tourism," said Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.
Paleontologists in Australia announced the discovery of a new species of giant dinosaur. The bones indicate the animals could have been as long as a basketball court, and two stories tall.
One Of The Largest Dinosaur Species To Ever Roam The Earth Discovered In Australia
A dinosaur as long as a basketball court roamed across Australia nearly 100 million years ago, scientists announced this week. Meet Australotitan cooperensis, a massive sauropod from Eromanga in southwest Queensland one of the largest species to ever walk the Earth. The Southern Titan has been officially confirmed and named by paleontologists at the Queensland Museum and Eromanga Natural History Museum. Their research, designating the gargantuan dinosaur as the largest ever to be found on the continent, published in the journal PeerJ this week.
The colossal long-necked creature is estimated to have measured about 21 feet tall at the hip and nearly 100 feet long, with a weight of about 70 tons. That puts the plant-eating species within the top 10-15 largest dinosaurs in the world.