At last... the fabled Aussie "Brachiosaur"

[Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>]

THE remains of a dinosaur standing two storeys high and the length of
five cars have been found in Queensland. The biggest dinosaur found in
Australia was unearthed on a remote property near Winton. The state's
Arts Minister, Matt Foley, confirmed the animal, a plant-eater from the
titanosaurid family, was the largest fossil found in Australia.

"This dinosaur would have stretched the length of five cars and would
have been able to look into a window on a two-storey building," Mr Foley
said. "We're talking about something that was very long, possibly about
16m to 21m in length."

"Even the thigh bone was half a metre wide and as tall as a family
fridge. At this size he would have weighed as much as five African
elephants."

All of the remains found so far were exposed but it was believed more
bones, possibly even the head, still lay untouched beneath the surface.
it was anticipated that the skeleton would form the most complete
remains of a sauropod dinosaur in Australia.

        Melbourne Herald Sun, 10 October 2001
(the CGI picture used in the article seems to be the same one that
accompanied the Paralititan articles in newspapers down here.)

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Dann Pigdon                   Australian Dinosaurs:
GIS Archaeologist           http://www.geocities.com/dannsdinosaurs
Melbourne, Australia        http://www.alphalink.com.au/~dannj/
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