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A nearly complete and intact dinosaur skeleton has been excavated in France. The specimen is a Titanosaur, one of the largest dinosaurs of its time. 70 million-year-old giant dinosaur skeleton ...
Patagotitan mayorum, another titanosaur found in the same region, had an estimated length of about 130 feet, researchers said in a CONICET news release, and may have weighed as much as 70 tons, a ...
Excavation of the dorsal and caudal vertebrae and pelvis of Qunkasaura. The holotype specimen of Qunkasaura is a partial skeleton belonging to a single individual. It is part of a bonebed discovered in 2007, which includes the associated skeletons of multiple titanosaur taxa, as well as other dinosaurs, eusuchians, and many other animals.
Titanosauria have the largest range of body size of any sauropod clade, and includes both the largest known sauropods and some of the smallest. [25] One of the largest titanosaurs, Patagotitan, had a body mass estimated to be 69 tonnes (76 tons), whereas one of the smallest, Magyarosaurus, had a body mass of approximately 900 kilograms (2,000 lb).
A new species of dinosaur has been identified more than a decade after a large number of ancient skeletons were found in Spain -- and researchers expect more species to be discovered. The ...
In 2024, Pereira et al. described Tiamat valdecii as a new genus and species of basal titanosaur based on these fossil remains. The generic name , Tiamat , references Tiamat —the serpentine or draconic goddess of Sumerian and Babylonian mythology —who traditionally represents the mother of mythical beings, hinting at the basal phylogenetic ...
One of the titanosaur tail vertebrae bore marks that could have been made by Tyrannotitan chubutensis, either through scavenging or hunting. A total of 223 bones of seven different individuals of the new species were found on three levels at the site, indicating three different occasions on which the animals were deposited at the site.
Europe's first titanosaur cast, originally discovered in Argentina's Patagonia region in 2010, has been revealed at the Natural History Museum in London. Once a 57-tonne giant that lived roughly ...