Australian paleontologists have discovered the fossils of one of the oldest herbivorous dinosaurs in Oceania on a Queensland farm.
The fossilized remains of what appears to be a huge herbivorous sauropod , named Zac , are around 97 million years old and were found near the city of Eromanga, an area rich in fossils that was covered by a sea in the Cretaceous period. inside.
The first analyzes reveal that the animal had a very long neck, a small head, sharp teeth and a long tail. According to the scientists, their find confirms Australia's importance as a center for dinosaur discovery.
According to Scott Hocknull, a paleontologist at the Museum of Queensland, more excavations are planned in the area, where a 28-meter-long titanosaur and remains of three other large prehistoric reptiles were also recently found. "There must be hundreds of skeletons below the surface ?, predicts the researcher.
