Discover new dinosaurs in Australia

After nearly a century, a new dinosaur in New South Wales was discovered and named: Weewarrasaurus pobeni.

Weewarrasaurus pobeni is named after the discovery area and the name of the person who bought fossil Mike Poben.

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The reconstructed image is believed to be the Weewarrasaurus pobeni dinosaur.

This is a fairly small sized dinosaur, just the size of Australia's Kelpie shepherd. The fossil found in Lightning Ridge shows that this dinosaur lived about 100 million years ago.

More specifically, Weewarrasaurus fossils pobeni were accidentally discovered in a . bucket of rubble.

'I was attracted immediately. When I found out, I felt like someone was stabbing me in the back and someone behind me said it was 'tooth' and not opal. I have never seen them before, they are too rare , 'Mr. Poben said.

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Fossil samples were found in the bucket of rubble in Australia.

After discovering the strange fossil specimen, Mr. Poben went to meet New England University biologist Phil Bell to determine more accurately.

Dr. Bell and his team spent the past two years determining the fossil record of the site brought by Mr. Poben.

Lightning Ridge , the site of the discovery of fossils of new dinosaurs, is also the only place in the world, dinosaur bones often turn to Opal stones.

Currently, the fossil of the Weewarrasaurus pobeni dinosaur is on display in the Opal Australia collection, the most diverse public fossil collection in the world.