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Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by Nobody: 7:15am On Jun 08, 2021


Meet the Southern Titan! Huge dinosaur the same length as a Basketball Court roamed Australia 96 million years ago, study finds

A huge sauropod dinosaur dubbed the 'southern titan' that was as long as a basketball court roamed Australia 96 million years ago, a study has reported.

Queensland Museum and Eromanga Natural History Museum experts described the new species, named 'Australotitan cooperensis', which was unearthed in 2007.

Palaeontologists found the fossil specimen, nicknamed 'Cooper' in southwest Queensland's Cooper Creek, after which the dino was also given its species name.

Taking the record for Australia's largest dinosaur, the southern titan reached up to 21.3 feet (6.5 metres) high at the hip and up to 98 feet (30 metres) in length.

Scientists have estimated that the colossal Australotitan cooperensis could have weighed in at as much as 163,142 pounds (74,000 kilograms).

'Australotitan adds to the growing list of uniquely Australian dinosaur species discovered in Outback Queensland,' said paper author and palaeontologist Scott Hocknull of the Queensland Museum.

Just as importantly, he added, it 'showcases a totally new area for dinosaur discovery in Australia.'

'To make sure Australotitan was a different species, we needed to compare its bones to the bones of other species from Queensland and globally. This was a very long and painstaking task.'

Being large, heavy and fragile, dinosaur fossils are kept in museums that can be thousands of miles apart, comparing them can prove a challenging feat.

To overcome this, the team used new digital technologies to create a three dimensional scan of each of Australotitan's bones.

These were then be compared to the southern titan's closest relatives, while also joining the Queensland Museum's online collection for others to be able to access in the future.

'The 3-D scans we created allowed me to carry around thousands of kilos of dinosaur bones in a 7 kilogram laptop. Better yet, we can now share these scans and knowledge online with the world,' Dr Hocknull said.

The team's analysis concluded that Australotitan was closely related to three other sauropods found in Australia that lived 92–96 million years ago, during the Cretaceous Period — Diamantinasaurus, Savannasaurus and Wintonotitan.

'We compared the three species found to the north, near Winton, to our new Eromanga giant and it looks like Australia's largest dinosaurs were all part of one big happy family,' explained Dr Hocknull.

'We found that Australotitan was the largest in the family, followed by Wintonotitan with big hips and long legs, whilst the two smaller sauropods, Diamantinasaurus and Savannasaurus were shorter in stature and heavily-set.'

Alongside the description of Australotitan, the researchers also revealed other discoveries in the Eromanga area that are awaiting further study, Dr Hocknull said.

'Over the last 17-years numerous dinosaur, skeletons have been found, including one with an almost complete tail,' he added.

'A rock-shelf, almost 100 metres [328 feet] long, represents a sauropod pathway, where the dinosaurs walked along trampling mud and bones into the soft ground.

'Discoveries like this are just the tip of the iceberg. Our ultimate goal is to find the evidence that tells the changing story of Queensland, hundreds of millions of years in the making.'

'Discoveries like Australotitan tell the story of a time when dinosaurs roamed Queensland,' commented Minister for Arts Leeanne Enoch, who added that the exciting new discovery is cementing Queensland as Australia's dinosaur capital.


'Queensland Museum experts have been on the ground, sharing their knowledge with regional museums and helping to preserve and better understand the diverse paleontological history of our state.'

'Australia is one of the last frontiers for dinosaur discovery and Queensland is quickly cementing itself as the palaeo-capital of the nation — and there is still plenty more to discover,' said Queensland Museum Network CEO Jim Thompson.

'I am proud that Queensland Museum palaeontologists have been part of many of these amazing discoveries and are leaders in their fields.'

The full findings of the study were published in the journal PeerJ.
Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9652771/Fossils-Huge-dinosaur-length-BASKETBALL-COURT-roamed-Australia-96-million-years-ago.html

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by JuanJO(m): 7:16am On Jun 08, 2021
96 million years Oyibo get time I swear. Even our scientist's here done dey join politics, no time to waste time grin grin

One scientist for my road don go buy small cab. E don dey run PH to Owerri

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by FBIBOT(m): 7:17am On Jun 08, 2021
Another one

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by Eazi1(m): 7:18am On Jun 08, 2021
Not suprised, but how do they know it's been millim years? any statistical proof?

They just run on Error margin

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by Kingosytex(m): 7:21am On Jun 08, 2021
96 Million years ago? You people will just be dishing out value up and down.

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by Icarus99(f): 7:23am On Jun 08, 2021
How do these people come up with the year
Are they scoping us or what?

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by Amotolongbo(f): 7:33am On Jun 08, 2021
Eazi1:
Not suprised, but how do they know it's been millim years? any statistical proof?

They just run on Error margin
archeological proof

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by alexsoftwork(m): 7:33am On Jun 08, 2021
At least they have evidence to show. What's the evidence that ur pastors and G. Hoes will go to heaven??

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by Amotolongbo(f): 7:35am On Jun 08, 2021
Kingosytex:
96 Million years ago? You people will just be dishing out value up and down.
Icarus99:
How do these people come up with the year
Are they scoping us or what?
What proof has the Holy Books that Methuselah, Adam et al spent more than 800years on earth?

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by olamide0147: 7:39am On Jun 08, 2021
alexsoftwork:
At least they have evidence to show. What's the evidence that ur pastors and G. Hoes will go to heaven??
What's the evidence that you won't go to hell?

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by iamyemiakins(m): 7:49am On Jun 08, 2021
A huge sauropod dinosaur dubbed the 'southern titan' that was as long as a basketball court roamed Australia 96 million years ago, a study has reported.
Won tun gbe de

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by Golan007: 8:02am On Jun 08, 2021
alexsoftwork:
At least they have evidence to show. What's the evidence that ur pastors and G. Hoes will go to heaven??

Bible.

grin

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by Coldshisha: 11:48am On Jun 08, 2021
Kingosytex:
96 Million years ago? You people will just be dishing out value up and down.
Eazi1:
Not suprised, but how do they know it's been millim years? any statistical proof?

They just run on Error margin



It's called carbon dating and half life

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by DenreleDave(m): 12:23pm On Jun 08, 2021
Lies.... Millions years ago when the earth is just 6000 years



Fvck to all liar scientists

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by WoundedLamb: 2:34pm On Jun 08, 2021
DenreleDave:
Lies.... Millions years ago when the earth is just 6000 years



Fvck to all liar scientists

Scientists don't need your vote. They don't need anything from you. What would they gain by lying to you? There are many dating techniques out there and they have significantly helped in areas such as crime investigation, archeology, geology, etc. Even with error margins and rounded values, the dates have proven to be fairly accurate.

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by MAGG0T(m): 2:50pm On Jun 08, 2021
cheesy

with this there yeye calculation, these one no believe in God at all

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by cassidy1996(m): 3:13pm On Jun 08, 2021
Oyinbo people can talk lie

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by KnowledgeVault: 4:02pm On Jun 08, 2021
Interesting.. Titanosaurs

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by ChiefSosa(m): 4:57pm On Jun 08, 2021
DenreleDave:
Lies.... Millions years ago when the earth is just 6000 years



Fvck to all liar scientists
Denrele, you're here again abi? Even after I answered a similar question in a previous thread, you're still asking abi? #GOTOSCHOOLDENRELE

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by DenreleDave(m): 5:45pm On Jun 08, 2021
grin
ChiefSosa:

Denrele, you're here again abi? Even after I answered a similar question in a previous thread, you're still asking abi? #GOTOSCHOOLDENRELE
Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by iampeterben(m): 6:25pm On Jun 08, 2021
Their hypothetical analysis on the years are very confusing and demands questioning.

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by SportsHD: 10:27pm On Jun 08, 2021
E get why god drop atomic bomb kill all these dinosaurs.
We can't possibly fight these fire spitting, 3 storey tall, football field long Animals.

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by Hintona(f): 10:34pm On Jun 08, 2021
E be like say dinosaurs been dey avoid Nigeria

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by abeeee(m): 11:01pm On Jun 08, 2021
With the kind of comments am seeing up there.......Africa may never catch up ....ever

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by Sonnobax15(m): 5:43pm On Jun 15, 2021

While foreign archaeologists keeps unveiling new discoveries,our own very scientist down here for Nigeria never fit get time to hustle wetin Dem go put for belle,no be to waste time digging up fossils.....

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by soberdrunk(m): 5:44pm On Jun 15, 2021
*96 million years ago** okay oooo!!! Even Adam and Eve were made only 6,000 years ago, I blame Nigerian government for not investing in research, na why these white folks fit tell us anything..... angry

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by DSC7: 5:44pm On Jun 15, 2021
Meat is ready grin

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by foeedaba: 5:46pm On Jun 15, 2021
DenreleDave:
Lies.... Millions years ago when the earth is just 6000 years



Fvck to all liar scientists

Who told you that the earth is 6000 years old? According to the record in the Bible, God created man 6000 years ago, but God created the heaven and the earth in the beginning (unspecified date which could be millions or billions of years ago). The universe and the earth were created at the same time.

Theses creatures lived on the earth millions of years ago, but some millions of years ago the earth underwent a cataclysmic disaster that caused the death of these creatures and the earth came to be in the state that was without form and void as mentioned in Genesis chapter 1. Then 6000 years ago God decided to make the earth once again habitable with different creatures living in it.

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Re: Meet The Southern Titan! Huge Dinosaur The Same Length As Basketball Court (Pix) by blazepascal(m): 5:47pm On Jun 15, 2021
Hungary 0-0portugal halftime

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