Lightning claw: fossilised bones found to be Australia's largest carnivorous dinosaur

Discovery by opal miners in 2005 finally identified by palaeontologists as seven-metre long predator equipped with giant talons that roamed 110m years ago

Australia's largest carnivorous dinosaur, dubbed "lightning claw" due to its terrifyingly large talons, has been identified from fossilised bones found in opal in the New South Wales outback.

The dinosaur would have been around 7m in length - larger than the Australovenator, a dinosaur found in Queensland that was previously thought to be Australia's largest meat-eating ancient beast.