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THEY were found entwined in an ancient Australian billabong - predator and prey preserved forever.
"Banjo" was a vicious hunter, a 5m-long killer of the times that chased down its victims over a flat, rolling landscape filled with ferns and conifers about 98 million years ago.
When Banjo - scientific name australovenator wintonensis - caught the smaller plant-eating dinosaurs it hunted, the claws came out - brutal daggers attached to its "hands" that could flail a belly like a can opener. With 36 razor teeth on its bottom jaw, it cut through tough skin, muscle and tendons.
But Banjo would never pass up an easy feed. Scott Hocknull, the dinosaur hunter who yesterday unveiled Australia's most important fossil finds, believes that is why the carnivore's bones were discovered mixed up with those of "Matilda", a massive plant-eating dinosaur.
A third dinosaur, nicknamed "Clancy", was found about 4km away at Winton, a rich fossil hunting area in central Queensland.
Mr Hocknull said Banjo was Australia's version of the velociraptor, made famous in Jurassic Park.
"Ours is bigger and meaner. In reality velociraptor was turkey-sized," Queensland Museum senior curator of geosciences Mr Hocknull said yesterday.
"Matilda probably got stuck in the mud and Banjo has come along, seen a free meal and got stuck too.
"Matilda was a plant eater 15m or 16m long which weighed about 20 tonnes. We think australovenator normally hunted solo and would run down dinosaurs smaller than it was but they could have also formed packs to take on really big prey.
"There's fossil footprints in the same area showing a dinosaur stampede with a carnivore following."
Clancy was a different giant vegetarian, also about 16m long but taller and more slender than Matilda.
"Clancy was like a giraffe of the times and Matilda a hippo. They filled different niches, able to reach different plants," Mr Hocknull, 31, said.
All three are new to science, the most complete large dinosaur bones found in Australia and the first major find in more than 25 years.
They are also justification for Mr Hocknull's almost life-long obsession with Australian dinosaurs.
"When I became fascinated as a teenager I was told you had to go overseas to discover major dinosaurs and make a name because no one found much here," he said.
The dinosaurs have been nicknamed after characters created by poet Banjo Paterson.

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@CommercialVehicle
@CommercialVehicle 15 лет назад
thanks for posting
@thepunictrader
@thepunictrader 14 лет назад
Banjo towers over velocerapter. It's good that these thigs are being found but I hope the have experts on site.
@Albukhshi
@Albukhshi 15 лет назад
LOL XD in which case, no, I'm not jealous at all- as a paleontologist in training, I love a new chance to break records in the dinosaur world. T-rex used to be the biggest land predator known back when I was a kid-nowadays its Spinosaurus.
@Albukhshi
@Albukhshi 15 лет назад
not really. Giganotosaurus does indeed have a solid build to it, as opposed to spinosaurus, but some remains dug up in Morocco and Egypt show that spinosaurus was up to 50-60ft and 9 tons; giganotosaurus was 46 feet tops, and weighed in at 7 tons. note I go by mass and length. and spino's head, though crocodile like, wasn't small-in the largest specimens, it was over 6 ft, with 9 inch teeth. but you are right about predatory status, I should have actually said "largest land carnivore" XD
@2degucitas
@2degucitas 12 лет назад
@mustaffa1611 Wow. My mother-in-law who is long dead used to say this back in the 60's. You really need an info update!!!!
@101Habbopranks
@101Habbopranks 15 лет назад
I LUV WINTON....CUZ I LIVE THER
@007ibz
@007ibz 14 лет назад
I live in Australia
@flyingscience
@flyingscience 15 лет назад
Who shoots at fossil hunters?
@jaisanatanrashtra7035
@jaisanatanrashtra7035 4 года назад
Reporters with deep neck blouses 😍
@dosh228
@dosh228 13 лет назад
I know where clear foot prints are 2ft long by 3/4wide looks almost like a lizards foot print but 6ft feet apart all imbeeded into rock a whole trail, which could lead 2 possible bones in the area..
@CAWCarcharo34
@CAWCarcharo34 13 лет назад
the theropod seems to b an anceister of allosaurus
@Thetcart360
@Thetcart360 11 лет назад
@gametips09 geography/history lesson all the continents used to be linked in one called pangea pangea broke apart most of these species such as the velociraptor looking one were in australias are of it at the time they got used to australias climate while the ones staying in america were evolving into velociraptor so in a way you have in a way you have'nt
@dosh228
@dosh228 13 лет назад
@ThR33DiDgEtZ has J Kaliis retired already
@Albukhshi
@Albukhshi 15 лет назад
what? what's there to be jaelous of? I admire those paleontologists there. I did however, comment on how the accent led to an unfortunate mistake, which is an example of pointing things out, not jealousy.
@Albukhshi
@Albukhshi 15 лет назад
the accent sounds it off like "shit"
@Albukhshi
@Albukhshi 15 лет назад
what? look, I'm not really out to offend anyone here. If you feel offended for me pointing out the confusion the other person had regarding the low e (a feature of the dialect), my apologies. but no offense was meant here. I was just replying to Jupjupz about how the person above him -yogoz- thought they said shit-yes, I know it doesn't actually sound like it, but others have bad ears. Its no crime to point out a linguistic confusion-besides, you didn't explain why this is jealousy.
@jupjupz
@jupjupz 15 лет назад
He said "Shed" lol dunno where you got shit from...
@gametips09
@gametips09 12 лет назад
In america we already discovered those dinosaurs.
@kingmeatballs8293
@kingmeatballs8293 4 года назад
gametips09 No I’m not so sure about that.
@TheArtdecovampire
@TheArtdecovampire 12 лет назад
Wrong
@kingmeatballs8293
@kingmeatballs8293 4 года назад
TheArtdecovampire true
@Pilsnerk0rv
@Pilsnerk0rv 15 лет назад
let them rest in peace!!! grave-looters!!
@TheArtdecovampire
@TheArtdecovampire 12 лет назад
@mustaffa1611 Stand up comedy is not the job for you is it. Anyway better luck elsewhere.
@swat756
@swat756 12 лет назад
I bet it's easy being a scientist. All you have to do is come up with a random number in the millions for fossils and try to get everyone to believe you. The earth has not been here for 7000 years...
@kingmeatballs8293
@kingmeatballs8293 4 года назад
swat756 the earth as been here for 4.5B years