Biggest animal on earth ever

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1 - Bruhathkayosaurus matleyi is lost and there are serious dobts about IF it was a real dinosaur after all.

Check the entire article: http://paleoking.blogspot.com/2012/01/gi...-your.html

Also check this: http://dinogoss.blogspot.com/2011/12/bru...8906512563

2 - About Amphicoelias fragillimus, new studies suggest that was not the "big" beast reported. A new study of Dr Carpenter in 2018 shows that its morphology was not the one of a Diplodocid but just like a rebbachusaurid like Limaysaurus. Even the name changed, is now Maraapunisaurus fragillimus. Check the paper of this study (attached document).

Finally, a comparative image of that document:

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So, non of them are real giants, and did not surpassed Argentinosaurus and other giant sauropods.

Other two posts about how big was Maraapunisaurus fragillimus, older than the new study of Dr Carpenter, by the way:

https://www.deviantart.com/palaeozoologist/journal/Amphicoelias-fragillimus-smaller-than-you-think-424759499  - from January 4 2014.

https://www.deviantart.com/palaeozoologist/journal/Was-Amphicoelias-a-rebbachisaur-440611550 - from March 15 2014.

It seems that Maraapunisaurus fragillimus was about 30 meters long and about 80 tonnes.

About Barosaurus and Mamenchisaurus, the estimations taht I have saw are still not quite clear and are highly speculative, but will be interesting to see those results.

3 - Finally, about Shonisaurus sikanniensis, previously clasified as Shastasaurus, was probably about 21 meters long, still a giant but not near the blue whale.

Check this link:http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/exhibits/triassic_giant.htm

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There is a new specimen reported in 2018 of a new Ichthyosaurus estimated at up to 26 meters long.

Check the report: https://www.newsweek.com/giant-ichthyosa...?yptr=yaho

The original paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/articl...ne.0194742

More images of this giant:

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A real monster and was amazingly found "in situ", which is incredible.

Other link: http://www.reptileevolution.com/shonisau...iensis.htm

However the report itself had assuptions, for example: "We compared our jawbone to that of Shonisaurus sikanniensis, the largest ichthyosaur previously known, with an estimated length of up to 21 meters," Massare told Newsweek. "Our bone was about 25 percent deeper. The estimate assumes that the two animals had a similar shape for this bone, as neither specimen preserves the entire bone."

If there were differences between the new species and the Shonisaurus sikanniensis, the estimation will be invalid, but even then the animal was huge.

So, for the moment, it seems that the largest sauropods are still about 30 or maybe up to 40 meters long but still don't surpass the 90 tons. Whales are still on the top and the blue whale is still the biggest animal ever, or not???

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