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    AUSTRALIA’S LARGEST EVER DINOSAUR DISCOVERED

    Jun 30, 2021 2 minutes

    A newly discovered dinosaur has been named Australia’s largest species. Australotitan cooperensis is between 5 and 6.5 metres tall at the hip and 25 to 30 metres long. It was estimated to weigh between 23,000 and 74,000kg when alive.

    The dinosaur is a sauropod, a fourlegged herbivore with a More precisely, it belongs to the group of sauropods called titanosaurs, which contain the largest-known land animals ever to walk the Earth. The new dinosaur, which lived 92 to 96 million years ago in the Cretaceous period, is believed to be among the 10 to 15 largest dinosaurs worldwide.

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