Anything about the extinct mighty dinosaurs is quite intriguing. In a row, scientists from the Swinburne University of Technology announced the discovery of bones of an assumedly ‘old dinosaur’. These remains were found at the lost site of Australia’s Queensland.
Paleontologists on Thursday revealed that these bones belong to the long-necked Austrosaurus mckillopi, where the name Austrosaurus means “southern lizard”. This name was given back to the Cretaceous-era sauropod when it was discovered in 1932, but the digging site was thought to be lost until it was rediscovered in 2014 by a team of paleontologists from Swinburne.
Led by Stephen Poropat from the same University, it is believed that the discovery has the potential to “tell us a lot” about how the evolution process for the occurrence of sauropod dinosaurs.
Talking about his research, Poropat said, “What the dinosaur represents is one of the oldest sauropods dinosaurs from the Cretaceous period. Anyway, in Australia, it is actually represented by several bones.”