Fossils Reveal Giant Dinosaurs Roamed Queensland

A scientific consultant assembles the bones of a Crested Hypacrosa's skeleton, a Jurassic age (72-70 million years) dinosaur at the Drouot auction house in Paris on April 13, 2019. KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/ Getty Images

Giant carnivorous dinosaurs the length of a bus wandered southeast Queensland about 160 million years ago, new research shows.

Analysis of fossilised footprints by a University of Queensland research team has shone new light on the diversity of dinosaur life in the state during the mid-to-late Jurassic period.