has been dubbed "Banjo" by the Queensland authorities"

A particular British Winton was dubbed "Banjo String" for far more sinister reasons...

.. how come they died sooner?

Fancy not knowing who Banjo Patterson was, you will be saying next that you have never heard of Henry Lawson either

> Australovenator Wintonensis

The correct form for a Linnean taxonomic binomial is to capitalize the genus, and leave the species in lower case.

Thus: Gyps himalayensis. Or whatever.

Bruno will be proud

"How do they know that these weren't actually British dinosaurs who emigrated there for better weather and prospects, or criminal dinosaurs transported there against their will for stealing iguanadon eggs?"

There's no evidence of excessive dinosaur whining "its not like that TV show Neighbours is it!!!"

...cos a T. Rex would get horribly burned trying to turn a brontosaurus steak on the barbie with those tiny little ones.

The Courier Mail is a complete arse-rag of a publication with Daily Mail style "this is scandalous" empty rhetoric and pointless rambling articles. The grammar and spelling are typically atrocious with articles looking like the result of a pissed browse of Wikipedia combined with a hint of Googling. Facts are innocent bystanders. The "journalists" employed therein would appear to be a product of the equally atrocious Queensland state education system.

"There's no evidence of excessive dinosaur whining "its not like that TV show Neighbours is it!!!""

It's definitely a true blue Aussie dinosaur...when the bones were being checked they found a very large chip on its shoulder.

They also found evidence of a crashed vehicle, 48 empty containers of something called "Lava-lager" and some primitive Dino-roo shooting weapons....

It's deadly poisonous as well?

Darn right. Also you can tell they're not British dinos, because when they arrived on the Qantas flight the whining sound stopped when they turned the engines off. Which isn't the sound that you hear when the plane is full of backpackers and holidaymakers.

I for one welcome the use of Banjo, Clancy and Matilda to name things uniquely Australian.

Partially correct understanding of Linnean binomial nomenclature.

You are correct in stating the genus first letter should be capitalized, however the second part of the name is more correctly known as the specific epithet this together with the genus names the species.

Pendant interject over.

Geez. Velociraptors were fairly small - the one's in Jurrassic Park were actually Deinonychus, but that name didn't sound vicious enough for Crichton.

The Queensland Courier-Mail sounds like a top quality rag.

Very easy: unlike all other australian species they were not poisonous like hell.

Welcome, pretty welcome to Autralia, where even the stone try to bite you.

"THIS is a velociraptor!"