Fossils reveal that a new species of titanosaurian sauropod roamed the Outback around 92 million years ago.
show the potential is there. Still, this isn’t what interests him the most. “At the end of the day we can go back and forth debating who’s found the largest dinosaur, but that’s not what really matters,” he says. “What I want to know is how these dinosaurs lived in their environment.”There’s a lot we don’t know about these creatures, but what we do know is fascinating. “We know they hatched from very small eggs and turned into enormous creatures in a very short period of time,” says Hocknull.
“We’re trying to figure out how you sustain a 60-ton animal in an open floodplain environment,” says Hocknull. “It suggests that there must have been flooding followed by a boom of life and then the dinosaurs would go elsewhere until the next rainy season.”. They show that titanosaurs likely covered long distances in search of food, leaving behind tracks that served as their own super-highway of sorts.
The researchers then compared them to similar fossils from other parts of the world, in order to correctly categorize specimen species that may differ in very slight ways. It was a labor of love that took the better part of two decades.
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