A new species of dinosaur has been confirmed as the largest ever found in Australia, and one of the biggest in the world. The fossilized skeleton, nicknamed “Cooper,” was found in southwest Queensland in 2007, but has only now been scientifically described and named by paleontologists. Cooper, whose scientific name is ‘Australotitan cooperensis’, is estimated to have walked the Earth over 90 million years ago. The titanosaur, a plant-eating species, is estimated to have reached a height of 5-6.5 meters (16.4 to 21.3 feet) at the hip, and a length of 25-30 meters (82 to 98.4 feet), making it as long as a basketball court and as tall as a two-story building.
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