How an Australian sheep farmer discovered a new species of giant dinosaur – video

David Elliott’s discovery of a toe bone led to the remains of the huge Savannasaurus elliottorum in the latest in a series of finds on his sheep station in remote central Queensland. The new species is a member of the group of dinosaurs known as sauropods – such as the brontosaurus, which have long necks and four thick, pillar-like legs. It belongs to a subgroup called ‘titanosaurs’, thought to have evolved in South America