Dinosaur discovery a world first- and it hails from Australia

By Bridie Smith
Updated October 21 2016 - 12:38pm, first published 12:15am
An artist's impression of the new dinosaur, Savannasaurus elliottorum. Photo: Travis Tischler
An artist's impression of the new dinosaur, Savannasaurus elliottorum. Photo: Travis Tischler
Stephen Poropat with the fossilised remains of Savannasaurus elliottorum - found in Queensland.
 Photo: David Elliott, Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum
Stephen Poropat with the fossilised remains of Savannasaurus elliottorum - found in Queensland. Photo: David Elliott, Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum
The central-western Queensland site in 2005, when the fossils were found. Photo: David and Judy Elliott, Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum
The central-western Queensland site in 2005, when the fossils were found. Photo: David and Judy Elliott, Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum
A skeletal reconstruction of the new dinosaur, based on the fossils found.  Photo: Travis Tischler
A skeletal reconstruction of the new dinosaur, based on the fossils found. Photo: Travis Tischler

The world has a new dinosaur: a barrel-bellied giant herbivore that stood as tall as a giraffe and grazed the grasslands of what is now central-west Queensland.