A paper published this week in the online scientific journal Paleontology and Evolutionary Science detailed their findings.
Credit: Vladislav Konstantinov / Scott Hocknull/ Eromanga Museum/ Queensland Museum
“Australotitan cooperensis adds to the growing list of uniquely Australian dinosaur species discovered in Outback Queensland, and just as importantly showcases a totally new area for dinosaur discovery in Australia,” said Dr. Scott Hocknull, lead researcher at the Queensland Museum and the University of Melbourne, in a press release.
Titanosaurs are a diverse bunch and includes species ranging from huge terrestrial vertebrates down to smaller sauropods not much bigger than modern-day elephants. When it was alive, Australotitan measured between 82-98 feet long, stood 16.4-21.3 feet high, and had a total mass of somewhere between 23 and 74 tons.
“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.
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.
A team of paleontologists have uncovered the bones of a dinosaur in the middle of the Australian outback.
The experts from the Eromanga Natural History Museum started digging up the bones last week in Eromanga, in south-west Queensland, and have since uncovered the remains of a dinosaur estimated to be 98 million-years-old.
While the team are yet to identify which kind of species the dinosaur may be, they ve said it s likely it could be a new kind altogether.
Corey Richards, the operations manager for the museum, told Daily Mail Australia the remains were a very exciting find for the team.
The experts from the Eromanga Natural History Museum started digging up the bones last week in Eromanga, in south-west Queensland, and have since uncovered the remains of a dinosaur estimated to be 98 million-years-old
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