After 14 years of excavation, palaeontologists have officially confirmed that titan sized dinosaurs once walked across Australia after the discovery of dinosaur skeletons in 2007 by a couple in Eromanga of Southwest Queensland led to the findings. The dinosaur —now officially named Australotitan cooperensis—is as long as a basketball court (25-30 metres) and reaches 5-6.5 metres tall, the height of a two-storey house. The behemoth is estimated to have weighed 74 tonnes, that is, 9 African elephants and is among the world’s top 10-15 largest. The dinosaur lived in the late Cretaceous period (92-96 million years ago). Jim Thompson, the CEO of Queensland Museum Network, said Australia is one of the last frontiers for dinosaur discovery. “In the early 2000s, Australia was at the beginning of a dinosaur-rush, with a number of significant new species of dinosaurs and megafauna being discovered in the past 20 years,” he said. But he …