Australovenator - Jurassic killer stalked Australia

news ^ | July 03, 2009

[JoeProBono]

THREE new species of Australian dinosaur have been discovered in a prehistoric billabong in western Queensland. Premier Anna Bligh announced the discovery in the central western town of Winton today as she opened the first stage of the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History.

The dinosaurs have been nicknamed after characters created by poet Banjo Paterson, who is said to have written Waltzing Matilda in Winton in 1885. Banjo (carnivorous theropod), Matilda and Clancy (giant plant-eating sauropods) were found in a vast geological deposit near Winton that dates from 98 million years ago.

The first new sauropods to be named in Australia in more than 75 years were unearthed during State Government-funded joint Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum and Queensland Museum digs. The meat-eating Australovenator wintonensis (Banjo) has been coined Australia's answer to the velociraptor made famous in the Jurassic Park movies (pictured).

The two plant-eating, four-legged sauropod species are new types of titanosaurs - the largest animals ever to walk the earth. "These discoveries are a major breakthrough in the scientific understanding of prehistoric life in Australia," Ms Bligh said.

[JoeProBono]

[Tennessee Nana]

Waltzing matilda

Once a jolly swagman camped down by a billabong
Under the shade of a coollabar tree
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled
You’ll come a Waltzing Matilda with me..

Waltzing Matilda Waltzing Matilda
You’ll come a Waltzing Matilda with me..

Down came a jumbuck to drink from that billabong
Up jumped the swagman anbd grabbed him with glee
And he sang as he shoved that jumbuck in his tucker bag
You’ll come a Waltzing Matilda with me..

Waltzing Matilda Waltzing Matilda
You’ll come a Waltzing Matilda with me..

I cant remember the rest...

:)

[JoeProBono]

Waltzing Matilda

[JoeProBono]

Tom Waits. Waltzing Matilda [aka: Tom Traubert's Blues] Live at Rockpalast 1977.

[SunkenCiv]

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[FroggyTheGremlim]

Hey, where’s the pouches on those Australian dinosaurs?

[Fred Nerks]

WINTON DINOSAURS

Map showing the Winton Formation Inland Sea

The Winton Dinosaurs are found in the lowermost Winton Formation, approximately 98-95 million years old.

These rocks are mudstones, shales, claystones, sandstones and carbon-rich shales that formed from sediments deposited in estuaries, streams, deltas, lakes and rivers. At this time the last of the great Cretaceous inland seas was retreating to the north...