Meet “Cooper”, Australia’s largest dinosaur
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Palaeontologists have confirmed that dinosaur fossils found in the Queensland outback in 2006 belong to a new species of giant sauropod
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Australotitan cooperensis roamed Earth in Cretaceous period (92-96m years ago), when Australia was part of supercontinent of Gondwana
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GONDWANA
Africa
India 
South America
Antarctica
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Cooper was 30m long and weighed 50-70 tonnes. Named after area
where it was found
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Dinosaur is biggest yet found in Australia and is among world’s top five largest specimens of titanosaur – largest terrestrial animals known
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AUSTRALIA
QLD
Canberra 
Fossil found on farm near Cooper Creek 

500km
300 miles
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MESOZOIC ERA Age of dinosaurs

CENOZOIC ERA

TRIASSIC JURASSIC CRETACEOUS  Early humans

250 million years ago 200 150 100 50 0

Dinosaurs wiped out

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Sources: Reuters, The Conversation, Sydney Morning Herald, ENHM Pictures: ENHM © GRAPHIC NEWS
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