Three New Dinos Discovered

Posted by NG Kids in News Bites on July 7, 2009
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Image courtesy Travis R. Tischler, Australian Age of Dinosaurs

“Banjo” is the nickname for the newly-named dinosaur Australovenator wintonensis, a meat-eating, raptor-like dino recently found in Australia. The fossilized remains are one of three new dinosaur species discovered in Winton, a town in the Australian outback.

Learn more about the dig and meet new discoveries “Matilda” and “Clancy” on National Geographic News.

Test your knowledge of dinosaurs in this National Geographic Kids Brainteaser.

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Categories: Extinct Animals

Comments

  1. esteban95
    August 26, 2009, 2:02 pm

    i have eleven lizards that look just like that(except they don’t have spikes)!!! :’)

  2. emshemie3
    October 7, 2009, 3:56 pm

    That is one wicked looking dinosaur!

  3. baboe
    January 16, 2010, 9:49 am

    That sounds like a pretty big dinosaur! Also my best friend even lived there for six years!

  4. animallover123
    January 5, 2011, 9:37 pm

    I know it loooks so scary, at least it doesn’t exist today.

  5. lamborghini revnton
    June 25, 2012, 3:25 pm

    I really like this dinosaur!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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