The world's newest dinosaur, found in outback Queensland, finally has a name, more than a decade after the barrel-chested herbivore's fossils were first found.
The six-metre tall, long-necked creature has been named Savannasaurus ellittorum after grazier David Elliott , chairman of the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum in Queensland, who found the fossils in the 2005.
Mr Elliott stumbled upon the bones by chance while out mustering sheep.
"I was trying to keep the sheep together on my own on a motorbike and I went straight through these bones," Mr Elliott told AAP in 2005.
"Anything else and I probably wouldn't have even stopped to have a look, but I jumped off as soon as I could and had a quick look and went 'Wow'."
The extraction of the bones was painstaking work, releasing the fossils from clay rich soil proving difficult.
Researchers have recovered about a quarter of the dinosaur's fossils, making it one of the most complete dinosaur skeletons found in Australia.
Savannasaurus belonged to the sauropod branch of dinosaurs, notable for their enormous size.
The dinosaur is on display at the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum at Winton, in outback Queensland.
