Dinosaur fossils were extraordinarily rare in Australia, but there have been recent discoveries. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WINTON, Australia – It took a moment to spot the fragment, initially: Fist-size and unnaturally smooth, nestled between shrubs teeming with burrs in an endless expanse of arid plains.
For as long as palaeontologists have been looking, dinosaur fossils were extraordinarily rare in Australia, and the continent was a missing piece in scientists’ understanding of dinosaurs globally. The palaeontological community “collectively assumed that dinosaurs were really, really hard to find in Australia”, he added.
Earlier palaeontologists had assumed that small fragments like those found by Mr Elliott were the last remains of complete fossils that had been weathered down into nearly nothing over the ages, and now had little scientific value. Palaeontologists started using the same method to unearth more bones around the region, including of one of the largest dinosaurs in the world.
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