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Dinosaur species discovered in Australia's Queensland confirmed to be brand new species

The world's latest plant-eating dinosaur species discovered on the outbacks of Queensland, Australia more than a decade ago was said to have a wider hip and a bigger belly.
Named Savannasaurus ellittorum, the four-legged, six-meter tall, long-necked creature was first discovered by grazier David Elliott in 2005 on his sheep station in a Queensland town of Winton while out mustering his sheep.
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Giant dinosaurs 'crossed continents'

Some of the giants of the dinosaur family may have originated in South America and crossed over Antarctica to Australia about 100 million years ago.
The dinosaurs were able to make the journey when a spell of warming allowed passage over frozen land bridges between the continents.
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Skye and Australia's Dino Stampede

Two years ago a BBC Two programme, Dino Stampede, examined the Australian site and interviewed Dr Neil Clark, of University of Glasgow's Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery as an expert on the subject.
The programme used evidence of dinosaur footprints found at Valtos on Skye - Scotland's Misty Isle - to help explain what happened in Queensland.
Dr Clark has previously described Skye as one of the world's most important palaeontology sites. Its standing is underlined by the number of finds from the Middle Jurassic, about 170 million years ago.
Evidence of dinosaurs and ancient large reptiles from other periods have also been found on the island. They include more than 100 marks left by a lizard called Isochirotherium - also known as the hand-beast - 270 million years ago.
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The great dinosaur stampede that never was?

The tracks were discovered in the 1960s by a quarry manager - who at first thought they must have been bird footprints.
In the 1970s, they were recognised as dinosaur tracks, and the area was excavated. More than 60 tonnes of rock were removed, revealing between 3,000 and 4,000 footprints, which in 1984 were identified by scientists as being the result of a dinosaur stampede.
But Anthony Romilio, a graduate palaeontology student at the University of Queensland says the facts just don't seem to add up, and in a paper published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology in January, he and his co-authors argue there never was a stampede at Lark Quarry.
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A 100-million-year-old dinosaur mystery embedded in stone in remote Australia is about to be opened by a team of international scientists from Australia, Spain, the United States and Scotland.
Thousands of dinosaur footprints etched in rock at a site near Winton, Queensland point to one terrifying moment, the only known dinosaur stampede on the planet.
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Work is underway at the site of a proposed multi-million dollar dinosaur museum in outback Queensland.
The Australian Age of Dinosaurs is planning a world-class museum just outside of Winton, in the state's central west, and is about to build a fossil preparation area and a road on the site.

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