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LISBON (AFP) – Palaeontologists in Portugal have unearthed the fossilised skeleton of what could be the largest dinosaur ever found in Europe. The remains are thought to be those of a sauropod, a herbivorous dinosaur 12 metres tall and 25 metres long that roamed the Earth around 150 million years ago. “It’s one of the […]
LISBON: Palaeontologists in Portugal have unearthed the fossilised skeleton of what could be the largest dinosaur...
Remains of what can be regarded as the largest dinosaur ever discovered in Europe were found in a back garden in Portugal. When the property owner in the city of Pombal found pieces of fossilised bone in the yard and then called scientists from the University of Lisbon, an excavation operation in the area began in 2017. The vertebrae and ribs of what Spanish and Portuguese palaeontologists believe to be a brachiosaurid sauropod have been discovered at the site earlier this month. The largest living land animal, and the largest of all dinosaurs, was the sauropod.
Portuguese and Spanish paleontologists have found huge fossilized ribs and vertebrae thought to belong to a brachiosaurid, one of the largest animals ever.
Palaeontologists in Portugal have unearthed the fossilized skeleton of what could be the largest dinosaur ever found in Europe.