Qantassaurus intrepidus, named after the Australian airline Qantas, was a small ornithopod from the Early Cretaceous of Victoria.
Scientists have unearthed a 100-million year-old dinosaur fossil in Western Queensland. The Elasmosaurus was commonly found across inland parts of Australia and is the world's first discovery of the dinosaur fully intact.
Dinosaur fossils are not as common in Australia as some other countries, but there is good evidence it was home to many large and small dinosaurs, which lived in the forest and wetlands.
Australotitan cooperensis
Based on skeletal remains found so far, 'Cooper' is Australia's largest dinosaur. Named after Cooper Creek and the Cooper Basin where this dinosaur was found.
Ozraptor is the oldest dinosaur in Australia known from a fossil bone, but all that is preserved is the lower portion of a left shinbone. It has proven quite difficult to determine the place of Ozraptor on the theropod family tree, let alone how big it was or what it looked like.
Scientists have excavated the first near-complete skull of a sauropod to ever be found in Australia. Nicknamed “Ann,” the long-necked specimen is just the fourth of the species Diamantinasaurus matildae ever uncovered.
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The first remains of a tyrannosaurus that stalked the southern continents have been identified by scientists from a distinctive hip bone blasted from a cliff face in Australia.
The 14-kilometre-wide asteroid punched a massive hole in Earth's crust and sent a cloud of ash and dust into the atmosphere. As the planet plunged into darkness and acid rain fell in the months and years that followed, about three-quarters of plants and animals – including most dinosaurs – were snuffed out.
A 95m-year-old dinosaur skull discovered in Winton, Queensland, has been identified by palaeontologists as the first nearly complete sauropod skull ever found in Australia. The skull belongs to a Diamantinasaurus matildae dinosaur, nicknamed Ann, that lived between 95m and 98m years ago.
During the Cretaceous period Australia was hot and basically separated up into a number of landmasses separated by great shallow seas. That is why many of Australia's dinosaurs were sea-living beasts like Plesiosaurs and Ichthyosaurs. 65 - 23.3 million years ago.
Vegetation. Towering conifer forests covered much of Australia. Smaller plants such as ferns, gingkoes, cycads, clubmosses and horsetails created an understorey. The first flowering plants had begun to bloom.
Contrary to prevailing thought, new research shows that early humans in Australia lived alongside giant reptiles, marsupials, and birds for thousands of years before these megafauna went extinct.
A dinosaur discovered in Queensland is the smallest sauropod found in Australia. The 95-million-year-old “baby” has been nicknamed “Ollie” and is the first juvenile sauropod found in the country.
Winton is Australia's Dinosaur Capital, located 1350km from Brisbane amongst panoramic views of rolling outback plains. It's home to Australia's largest dinosaur fossil collection and Southern Hemisphere's most productive fossil preparation laboratory.
Around 240 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period, the earth looked pretty different. It was a time when dinosaurs roamed freely and crocodiles coexisted alongside them. In fact, crocodiles are one of the only animals that are thought to have survived the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaur population.
There are two main reasons crocodiles survived the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. First, crocodiles can live for a very long time without food. Second, they lived in places that were the least affected when the asteroid hit Earth.
Birds: Birds are the only dinosaurs to survive the mass extinction event 65 million years ago.
The New Mexico Museum of Natural History is home to a cast of BHI 3033. The museum purchased the cast in 2008, and it remains a center piece of the museum, which is home to numerous other dinosaur fossils, notable T.
This research suggests spinosaurs lived all over the world. The first spinosaur dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (125-100 million years ago) of Australia has been uncovered and suggests these meat-eating dinosaurs lived all over the planet, scientists report in the journal Biology Letters today.
Doing this helped provide more evidence for scientists to confirm that the chicken is currently the closest living relative to the T-Rex. Even before discovering the evidence from the fossil, some scientists observed that chickens and the T-Rex had similar characteristics.
Other than birds, however, there is no scientific evidence that any dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, or Triceratops, are still alive. These, and all other non-avian dinosaurs became extinct at least 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period.
Although that would be fascinating, the answer is almost definitely no. While there's only one generation between you and your grandparents – that is, your parents – there are many millions of generations between today's birds and their ancient dinosaurs ancestors.
Bizarre 500-toothed dinosaur
Nigersaurus, you might remember, we named for bones collected on the last expedition here three years ago. This sauropod (long-necked dinosaur) has an unusual skull containing as many as 500 slender teeth.