While dinosaurs were wiped out after a catastrophic event such as a giant meteor strike 65 million years ago, the discovery of an Australian creature, now called gigantosaurus, suggests their descendants may still be alive. This is the biggest flesh-eating dinosaur that we know about and we have been a little outrageous, it is true. We've put a mohawk on the top of this animal, but that wasn't just to be silly. It's to make the point and to remind people of the very real fact that dinosaurs are not extinct. We tend to think that they are, but in fact they are birds.
Birds are small surviving flying dinosaurs.
Around 20 million years ago, the Australian continent separated from the great southern, or Gondwana, land mass. As it drifted north, the warm, wet climate meant lush rainforests covered much of the land and it was then that many of Australia's unique creatures evolved. He's been commissioned to construct the giant snakes, crocodiles and other bizarre creatures for the exhibit. I've made thousands of dinosaurs around the world, but the Australian ones are just so different and so spectacular and much more unusual. I mean, your living animals are much more unusual as well.