Re: Qld Museum to unveil Australia's biggest dinosaur bones

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

Dann Pigdon reports: 

> "Qld Museum to unveil Aust's biggest dinosaur bones"
> ABC News - Thursday, May 3, 2007  
>
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1912929.htm 

Another version of the same news item (with a humerus photo)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/items/200705/1912929.htm?queensland 

Another article, about Australia's impending 'dinosaur rush':
http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=378732 

And a transcript of a recent radio broadcast:
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2007/s1913193.htm 

"SCOTT HOCKNULL: What we have here is a massive humerus, which is an upper 
arm bone; it's about 1.5-metres long. A similar sized humerus from the other 
size of the body, so we're dealing with a dinosaur which we've nicknamed 
Cooper. 

"We've also found another dinosaur out there, which we've nicknamed George, 
and it's represented from a thighbone, a femur, and that's 1.8 metres long, 
so this makes it a massive animal, between 24 and 26 metres long, we're 
talking about." 

"...And while they're not a world record, they come pretty close. Cooper and 
George are only 20 centimetres shy of the largest dinosaurs ever found..." 

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I see the word 'Titanosaur' is thrown about quite a bit. I assume this is a 
media-friendly version of 'Titanosauriform'. 

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Dann Pigdon
GIS / Archaeologist         http://www.geocities.com/dannsdinosaurs
Melbourne, Australia        http://heretichides.soffiles.com
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