Yet another fossilized remain of one of the largest animals ever to walk the Earth about 145 million years ago, is discovered! -- a gargantuan plant-eating dinosaur! It is up to 125 feet long, weighing as much as seven elephants!
dinosaur unearthed in spain2 9
It is named -- Turiasaurus riodevensis -- after the region and village in Spain where it was found. The fossilized dinosaur was a sauropod, with a long neck, long tail and huge body that walked the earth on four masculine legs.
This sauropod is the largest dinosaur ever found in Europe! It was mostly in the Americas and Africa that previous dinosaurs of this scale have been found. Luis Alcala of Fundacion Conjunto Paleontologico de Teruel-Dinopolis in Teruel, Spain, by e-mail, said,
This discovery is the dream of a paleontologist. Really, I'm not dreaming?
Related Stories
Most complete-ever 'late Triassic' agile, plant-eating dinosaur found
After the recent find that the terrifying tyrannosaur was actually 'slowpokes', here comes another discovery to pamper your imagination of a dinosaur chasing at a lightning speed. But, it is not among those huge giants, but a small, agile...
125 Million-Year-Old Insect-Eating Mammal Fossil Found in China
It is a small, furry animal. It walked like a platypus but looked like a shrew! Doesn't it sound funny? Can such a creature actually exist? Let us leave these queries to the researchers and find out what the Chinese scientists have discovered - a...
New species of plant-eating Dinosaur with yard-long horns found in Cleveland
Scientists in Cleveland have found a new species of dinosaur, which has horns as thick as a human arm. Expert says: A new dinosaur species was a plant-eater with yard-long horns over its eyebrows, suggesting an evolutionary middle step between...
New species of giant plant-eating dinosaur Unearthed in Argentina
So massive yet the Skelton indicates that, predators preyed upon even such a massive animal. The 105-foot (32-meter) plant eater has been named Futalognkosaurus dukei, after the Mapuche Indian words for 'giant' and 'chief,' and for Duke Energy...
Everything I need to know about atmospheric electricity generator
The impact of atmospheric energy in the form of lightening accompanied by thunders has been probably experienced by all of us during thunderstorms or dust storms. If we can grab even a mere part of this energy, the energy scarcity of the entire world will
