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A Giant Among Dinosaurs, Discovered In Argentina

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Paleontologists in Argentina say they have unearthed the fossils of the biggest dinosaur .The bones are believed to be from a new species of the aptly named titanosaur, a massive herbivore from the late Cretaceous period, officials from the Museo Paleontologico Egidio Feruglio told BBC News.The titanosaur was a sauropod, like the apatosaurus or brachiosaurus, that roamed the forests of Patagonia 95 million years ago."Given the size of these bones, which surpass any of the previously known giant animals, the new dinosaur is the largest animal known that walked on Earth," the researchers told BBC News.Based on the size of the largest thigh bones, the scientists calculated that the titanosaur weighed around 170,000 pounds and measured 130 feet long and 65 feet tall."It's like two trucks with a trailer each, one in front of the other, and the weight of ," said Jose Luis Carballido, a dinosaur specialist at the museum, CNN reported.The Two-Way wondered what else on Earth compares to that gargantuan size. Imagine a : Not even three-quarters of the beast's length would fit, with the remaining 40 feet hanging out in the seats behind the basket.According to the museum's estimates, the creature weighed some 5,000 pounds more than a , and would have stretched a half-foot longer than the airplane.The jumbo titanosaur would have been about at Giza, something like the height of a seven-story building.The blue whale has the new sauropod beat, however. Though the ocean mammal is shorter by about 30 feet, the largest blue whales are estimated to weigh as much as . To be fair, the blue whale never has to support its bulk on land.The site of the discovery in Argentina holds the remains of seven dinosaurs, about 150 bones total. The site was in 2011 in the desert near La Flecha, near Trelew, Patagonia, said The Telegraph.The size of the previous holder of the title of world's largest dinosaur, the Argentinosaurus, was calculated from just a few bones, as opposed to the treasure trove just revealed, the BBC explains."Originally thought to weigh in at 100 tonnes, [Argentinosaurus] was later revised down to about 70 tonnes — just under the 77 tonnes that this new sauropod is thought to have weighed," the BBC reports.The new titanosaur still needs a name, one befitting its monumental dimensions."It will be named describing its magnificence and in honor to both the region and the farm owners who alerted us about the discovery," the researchers told the BBC
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014...-argentina
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An Argentinosaurus's leg...

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