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Скелет самого крупного в истории динозавра найден в Аргентине

Опубликовано: Olleg 18|05|2014 || Просмотров: 4875

Кости самого большого существа когда-либо ходившего по Земле нашли палеонтологи в Аргентине.

Находку совершил местный фермер. Исходя из размеров бедренной кости динозавра, его длина достигала 40 метров, а рост животного составлял 20 метров, что сравнимо с высотой семиэтажного здания. Вес самого крупного динозавра предположительно достигал 77 тонн, что равняется 14 слонам.

Boney: One of the paleontologists lies next to the femur of sauropod

What it was like: The newly identified South American dinosaur uses its whip-like tail to fend off predators in this 2014 illustration

Discovery: Paleontologists Jose Luis Carballido (L) and Ruben Cuneo pose next to the bones of a dinosaur at a farm in La Flecha, west of the Argentina's Patagonian city of Trelew

Quite the find: According to paleontologists from the renowned Egidio Feruglio Museum, Jose Luis Carballido and Ruben Cuneo, the fossils are that of a sauropod and preliminary tests dates the fossils at some 90 million years old

How it compaares: Size comparison between Argentinosaurus (shown in purple) and a human

Huge discovery: The fossilized bones of the biggest dinosaur ever discovered have been found in Argentina

Tremendous: Its gigantic bones were found by a local farm worker in a desert in Patagonia, the southern Argentine region that has yielded many important dinosaur discoveries

Garguantuan: Its calculated 77-ton weight would have made it as heavy as 14 African elephants, beating the previous record holder, Argentinosaurus, by some seven tons

Big dig: Technicians pose by the fossilized bones of what is believed to have the largest-ever dinosaur

Jigsaw: Researchers update their notes as their continue to dig where the fossils were found

Residents and technicians gather around the bones of a dinosaur at a farm. They say it is the largest set of remains of a dinosaur ever found to date

Vast: The palaeontologists say the find is thought to be a new species of titanosaur ¿ a huge herbivore of the long-necked sauropod group that lived in the Late Cretaceous period

Stupendous: The bones were initially discovered a year ago in the desert near La Flecha, about 135 miles west of the Patagonian town of Trelew

Dusty work: The fossils were then excavated by a team of palaeontologists from the Museum of Palaeontology Egidio Feruglio, led by Dr Jose Luis Carballido and Dr Diego Pol (pictured left)

Colossal: Scientists believe the species of titanosaur weighed in at 170,000 pounds, as heavy as 14 African elephants

Long nect: Paleontologists in Argentina's remote Patagonia region have discovered fossils of a creature is believed to be a new species of Titanosaur, a long-necked, long-tailed sauropod that walked on four legs and lived some 95 million years ago in the Cretaceous Period
Delicate work: Brushes are used to gently expose the dinosaur fossil

Immense: The museum has retrieved some 150 bones said to come from seven individuals, all in remarkable condition

Massive: Given the size of these bones, which surpass any of the previously known giant animals, the new dinosaur is the largest animal known to have walked on Earth

Remote location: Argentinosaurus also from Patagonia and discovered in 1987 was originally estimated at 100 tons but its weight was later revised downwards to around 70

Puzzle: One problem with assessing the weight of both Argentinosaurus and this new discovery is that they¿re both based on very fragmentary specimens ¿ no complete skeleton is known, which means the animal¿s proportions and overall shape are conjectural

Introducing: Paleontologist Pablo Gallina speaks to the press about a newly discovered dinosaur discovered in Argentina in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Scenic: The fossils, found in Patagonia, provide the first evidence that the whip-tailed diplodocid sauropods survived well beyond the Jurassic period, when they were thought to have been made extinct

Teamwork: The fossils were then excavated by a team of palaeontologists from the Museum of Palaeontology Egidio Feruglio, led by Dr Jose Luis Carballido and Dr Diego Pol

Back up: A digger excavates land in Chubut, where giant dinosaur fossils, pictured front, have been found

Dinosaur graveyard: Paleontologists examine the area where the giant fossils were discovered

Groundbreaking: They unearthed the partial skeletons of seven individuals - about 150 bones in total - all in remarkable condition

Documenting the moment: A film crew from the BBC Natural History Unit was there to capture the moment the scientists realised exactly how big their discovery was