Earth's largest dinosaurs are discovered in Argentina

[etienne_marais]

Earth's largest dinosaurs are discovered in Argentina

A series of fossil discoveries have revealed giant dinosaurs that, head to tail, extended a third of a football field and weighed as much as a dozen elephants or the largest humpback whale.

And a Pittsburgh paleontologist was on one team to study newly discovered fossils of two such titanosaurs — gigantic creatures that likely shook the ground with each step in what is now modern-day Argentina. Those behemoths were 82 to 92 feet and up to 66 tons -- 132,000 pounds.

But that titanosaur found in the Patagonia region of Argentina will be the focus of the Nature television documentary “Raising the Dinosaur Giant,” scheduled for broadcast on WQED at 8 p.m. Feb. 17. For now, it represents the largest known creature to walk on Earth at 122 feet long with a couch-sized thigh bone notably longer than host Sir David Attenborough, according to a PBS photograph of him reclined beside it.

http://www.geologyin.com/2016/01/earths-largest-dinosaurs-are-discovered.html

 

[etienne_marais]

That's freaking 37.1 meters

 

[jun_tao]

Yoh!

 

[Jings]

Asteroid or not, those dinosaurs were bound for extinction for lack of grindage to feed their massive bodies.