A turkey-sized dinosaur that once roamed the Australian-Antarctic rift valley 113 million years ago has been discovered.
It appears the plant-eating dinosaur became trapped in a log jam where it died in pain and became immortalised.
The new find sheds light on the diversity of the small, bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs called ornithopods.
The partial skeleton named Diluvicursor pickeringi or Pickering's Flood-Running dinosaur was found in sea cliffs near Cape Otway in the south eastern Australian state of Victoria.
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