A behemoth that once stood more than 16 feet tall and was as long as a basketball court has been confirmed as the largest dinosaur ever found in Australia.
and nicknamed "the southern titan," now ranks among the 15 largest dinosaur specimens found worldwide. Paleontologists from the Queensland Museum and the Eromanga Natural History Museum described the new species in a study published Monday in theThe fossilized skeleton was discovered in 2007 on a farm in southwest Queensland, near Cooper Creek.
The dinosaur is a type of giant sauropod, a plant-eating subgroup characterized by their elongated necks, long tails and four trunk-like legs.is thought to have lived 92 million to 96 million years ago, during the Cretaceous Period, the scientists said., the scientists created 3D scans of each bone and compared them to other known sauropod species in Australia and around the world.
In their study, the researchers found that the newly classified species was closely related to three other Australian sauropods — two smaller species known as
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