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Giant dinosaur trackway discovered in Australia

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A well-preserved dinosaur trackway, travelled by three different types of dinosaurs, has been discovered in Winton in central-west Queensland.

The discovery was announced on February 14 by the Queensland Tourism Industry Development Minister Kate Jones.

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Swinburne paleontologist, Dr. Stephen Poropat, is leading the research team for the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum in Winton, says that having three major dinosaur groups – sauropods, ornithopods and theropods – represented on the same trackway surface is incredibly rare. He further added that these fine details are so well preserved after 95 million years is remarkable.

One of the prehistoric creatures could have been at least 18m long, or almost as long as a cricket pitch and may have been pulling a younger relative, perhaps 11m long, into line said one of the paleontologists.

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The tracks are estimated to weigh 500 tonnes and are now being carefully moved to an outback museum, where owners hope they will become a major international tourist attraction and bring the spotlight back to a region devastated by drought and flood.

A team of paleontologists has been excavating and moving parts of the trackway since September last year so it could be preserved at the museum.

 

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