In 2006, Robyn and Stuart Mackenzie spotted what appeared to be massive black rocks while riding motorbikes on their sheep and cattle farm in Australia, reports Jennifer Jet for the New York Times. But upon closer inspection, they realized the rocks were bones.
Now, after over a decade of excavation and analyzing the enormous bones, researchers at the Queensland Museum and Eromanga Natural History Museum classified the fossil remains as a new species, Australotitan cooperensis, or "the southern titan," belonging to the genus titanosaur. The dinosaur is the largest ever found in Australia and one of the largest in the world. The study was published this week in PeerJ - the Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences.
