Story highlights The discovery tells more about how Australia and Antarctica were once connected

Diluvicursor pickeringi was roughly the size of a turkey, but its tail would have made it about 7½ feet

(CNN) Scientists have discovered a species of dinosaur that roamed between Australia and Antarctica 113 million years ago.

The discovery of Diluvicursor pickeringi, published Thursday in the biological and medical journal Peer J, tells us more about how Australia and Antarctica were once connected and the different kinds of dinosaurs that lived there.

"Skeletons of dinosaurs from Australia are very rare," Matthew Herne, the lead paleontologist on the study, wrote in an email. This discovery shows for the first time that there were at least two closely related dinosaur species living in southeastern Australia.

So what did D. pickeringi look like when it was alive?

This dinosaur was roughly the size of a turkey, Herne said, although its tail would have made it a lot longer, at around 7½ feet. It probably munched on things like leaves, pine nuts, mosses and possibly fruits. It was also a runner, evident from its long foot bones.

The partial skeleton of Diluvicursor pickeringi preserves most of the tail along with the right ankle and foot.

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