Australotitan Cooperensis: Australia's Largest Dinosaur Found

Bones discovered in Australia 15 years ago belong to the largest dinosaur ever found in the country, Australian officials announced. Named Cooper, short for Australotitan Cooperensis, the dinosaur measures nearly 30 meters long and weigh more than 60 tons, said Queensland Museum's Scott Hocknull.

"I equate it to something like 1,400 red kangaroos, something ridiculous like that, huge, huge animal," he said.

Tourists gathered in Eromanga to see the dinosaur bones on display at the museum.

Hocknull said it is the first time researchers can verify that Cooper is in fact Australia's largest dinosaur.

He added that the research is a long process of preparing the fossils and comparing them to other species of dinosaurs from around the world.

The bones were found by Robyn Mackenzie and her husband Stuart while they were mustering cattle on their property near the south western Queensland state town of Eromanga in 2006.

"It wouldn't have entered our mind that we were about to deal with an animal that was the largest in Australia and one of the largest in the world, so that was not even in our thinking," she said.

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[wolfbaneremoulade]

Only in Australia would they measure a dinosaur's weight in Red Kangaroos.

[davidgrover]

That’s not a dinosaur.
This is a dinosaur mate.

[PrehistoricAustralia]

It's funny seeing Australotitan cooperensis all over the news at present.
Those interested in Australian palaeontology (like myself) have known for a long time about this titanosaur holotype called "Cooper" being the largest dinosaur ever discovered in Australia. I've been patiently waiting for this titanosaur to be described for over a decade!
So it's awesome to see it finally getting major attention again in the media :)
If you want to see the Australotitan bones, take a road trip out to the Eromanga Natural History Museum in south-west Queensland. It's worth the trip! :D

[malcolmgrimm]

Gonna need to remake all the jurassic park movies now

[abbiejoliec]

I loved Brontosauruses as a child, so this shape of Dinosaur 🦕 is still my favorite!

[gbooker]

Red kangaroo: Australia’s standard unit of measure

[infini.tesimo]

I wish there was a Jurassic Park museum based off the visitor center in the film.

[NarcolepticProphet]

I'll start the trend now and start calling these guy's "Super Coopers"

[techy]

See you in a few years when this blows up

[elitewraith]

Another fun fact: You're here from that bone photo

[HomesteadAtLast]

What a poorly made video on something so fascinating

[DayLateGamerWill]

POV: going thru the comments looking for "dinosaur deniers"
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It was called "Bananabendersaurus" before this

[markissboi]

Remember this find in outback and the temple they found in Kakadu
one biggest dinos in world how big is it - Yes

[kylestewart]

Evidently they had McDonald's chicken nuggets back then too, Super sizing everything

[racheallange]

Well now Cooper is a "rock am a rockhound nerd...LOL

[JessicaZanerealz]

Such an amazing creature and now such a weak compliant people.

[szodoss]

Are femur very robust.
Shorter, but much more robust than Patagotitan femur.

[DucatiQueen]

God knows what other colossal critters lay buried somewhere that will dwarf this specimen……

[SAVVY]

I’m sorry but at 0:37 you can see home girl got a nice wagon