Fossils of 100m-year-old dinosaur found in Australia
Melbourne:
PTI
Fossils of a giant herbivorous dinosaur dating back more than 100 million years have been unearthed in Australia, scientists say. The bones believed to be from the Austrosaurus mckillopi were found at Clutha Station in Queensland in Australia.
The Austrosaurus mckillopi was a land-dwelling herbivorous dinosaur that grew up to 15 metres in length, with a barrel-like body and four pillar-like legs. Timothy Holland, curator of Kronosaurus Kor ner, a museum at Richmond, Australia said in 1932 a worker found some fragments of the backbone.
The bones were eventu ally sent to the Queensland Museum in Brisbane where scientists realised they we re different from all other fossils that had come from the Richmond area before.
It had been thought the site location had been los since then, Holland said However in 2014, Richmond mayor John Wharton had searched Clutha Station from a helicopter and found two wooden posts marking the original dig site. Hol land said the bones that we re found were approximate ly 104 million years old.
