Cooper’s fossilized skeleton was found in the southern-central Winton Formation of the Eromanga Basin, a Mesozoic sedimentary basin in northern Australia. This specific discovery was in the Queensland portion of the Eromanga basin, next to Cooper Creek, from where the name of the new dinosaur species is derived.
A reconstruction of the osteological remains and limb-size comparisons using 3D surface scan modelling, led to a comparative understanding of the appendicular skeleton between the Australian finds and their South American counterparts, who were found to be slightly larger.
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Daily Mail reports that dinosaur bones are typically large, heavy and fragile, and carefully preserved in museums thousands of kilometers apart, making comparisons between dinosaur fossils challenging. Fortunately, modern technology is rife with possibilities that help bridge this distance, especially through the use of 3D scans . The 3D scans we created allowed me to carry around 1
Paleontologists have discovered a new type of dinosaur in Australia that is gigantic. The dinosaur is longer than a basketball court and is called Australotitan
Researchers discover Australia s largest dinosaur, and its size is mindblowing [details]
Researchers have nicknamed this newly discovered dinosaur, the southern titan
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Researchers have confirmed the discovery of a new dinosaur species in Australia that is as tall as a two-storied building and as long as a basketball court. Scientists made this conclusion after analyzing a fossilized skeleton in 2007 on a farm in southwest Queensland, near Cooper Creek.
Mindblowing dinosaur discovery
According to researchers who took part in this study, the newly discovered dinosaur species could be 16 to 21 feet tall and might be 98 feet long, making it one of the biggest animals ever roamed on earth. The newly classified species has been named Australotitan cooperensis, and researchers have nicknamed it the southern titan.
Australian palaeontologists have unveiled a new species of giant sauropod dinosaur, which is the largest skeletal remains of a dinosaur ever to be discovered in Australia.