Scientists confirm discovery of Australia's largest dinosaur, two stories tall and a basketball court long.
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The new dinosaur species found in Australia are known to be the oldest of which are not available in the country, and the largest in the world.
A fossil skeleton named "Cooper", is found in south-west Queensland, australia, in 2007, Cooper's Creek, in the Eromanga basin. However, the skeleton has remained a mystery for many years, the only scientifically described and named by paleontologists.
The researchers, from the Eromanga Natural History Museum (ENHM), and the Queensland Museum have published their findings in the scientific journal PeerJ on Monday.
"Cooper," and its scientific name is Australotitan cooperensis, supposedly walked the Earth, as early as 90 million years ago. It was a titanosaurus, a plant-eating species of long-necked sauropod family, is the largest of the dinosaurs.
According to the ENHM's calculations, the boy is between the ages of 5 and 6.5 feet long with a total of 16.4 to 21.3 ft) and a hip, 25 to 30 m (82 to 98.4 feet), making it the length of a basketball court, and the height of a two-storey building.
With its long neck and tail, it can be the most well-known brachiosaur.
Robin McKenzie, one of the co-founders of the Eromanga Natural History Museum, a team of paleontologists were able to determine the size of the bone fragments, and the fact that they belong to a large group.
"The fabric was quite big and thick," he said. "We were able to measure the bone, and to compare them with other species, in Australia and in other parts of the world."
A number of large corporations, including, among other things, to the back of the ground, the strength, pelvis, legs, and arms, and legs, are usually intact. However, the station's researchers are supported if there is a delay for some of the species, therefore, the problem of managing its large and fragile bones.
Very big ben is to say, they were stored in museums are often thousands of miles apart from each other.
So, the team is using 3D technology to scan each and every Titanosaur bones, which allowed them to digitally compare the bones of the leg, similar to the other species.
It was found that the Australothitan were closely related to those of the three Australian sauropods, which were found, and further to the north, in the town of Winton.
This study also reveals an open book, new dinosaur discoveries, possibly in Australia.
"These findings put Australia on the map, and the state of Australia in order to join the other countries that are making progress, you're a man, like I said. So, the "big dinosaur", have so far been found mainly in south America, which makes this discovery even more rare.
"This is just the tip of the iceberg, in order to discover, to Australia," he said. "It opened up whole new frontiers of the dinosaurs."
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