Researchers in Australia have confirmed the discovery of Australia's largest dinosaur species ever found. Australotitan cooperensis was about 80 to 100 feet long and 16 to 21 feet tall at its hip.

For as long as paleontologists have been looking, dinosaur fossils were extraordinarily rare in Australia, and the continent was a missing piece in scientists’ understanding of dinosaurs globally.

Australia’s dinosaur boom began in 1999, when David Elliot discovered scientifically groundbreaking fossils on his farm near Winton, 15 hours northwest of Brisbane. 4.

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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 ...

After 15 years of analysis, scientists have finally confirmed the discovery of Australia’s largest known dinosaur species. The first remnants of Australotitan cooperensis were found in 2006 near ...

Today, a new Aussie dinosaur is being welcomed into the fold. Our study, published in the journal PeerJ, documents Australotitan cooperensis—Australia’s largest dinosaur species ever ...

The dinosaur is estimated to have reached a height of 16.4 to 21.3 feet at the hip, and a length of 82 to 98.4 feet.

As a result, by 100 million years ago, the forests of Victoria included an open conifer-dominated forest canopy. The subcanopy beneath was made up of seed ferns and ferns. Flowering plants and ferns ...

A new species of dinosaur discovered in Australia has been confirmed as the largest ever found in the country, and one of the biggest in the world. The fossilized skeleton, nicknamed “Cooper ...