She's a worthy person then (she's also a field palaeontologist) to lead me through my fossil preparation program. ![]() He's also a brand-new species that's never been found anywhere before. He's as long as a basketball court, two storeys high and between 93 and 96 million years old. Found close by, Cooper, as the animal has been dubbed, is one of the biggest dinosaurs ever found anywhere on the planet. On Monday last week, the museum announced they'd formally identified the biggest dinosaur ever found in Australia. This is Australia's dinosaur graveyard – and it's fast becoming one of the world's most significant bone and fossil areas. There's no dinosaurs along the road in - just a couple of bloated cattle struck by road trains on a lonely highway patrolled by wedge-tailed eagles – but the earth around here is full of their bones. ![]() On my drive to Eromanga Natural History Museum this morning I picture the scene from Jurassic Park where Sam Neill and Laura Dern make first contact with the dinosaurs, set to that dramatic John Williams score, just before Richard Attenborough announces: 'Welcome to Jurassic Park'. What Australotitan cooperensis, 'Cooper', the Southern Titan, may have looked like.
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