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Bruhathkayosaurus (/ b r uː ˌ h æ θ k eɪ oʊ ˈ s ɔːr ə s /; meaning "huge-bodied lizard") is a controversial genus of sauropod dinosaur found in the Kallamedu Formation of India.The fragmentary remains were originally described as a theropod, but it was later determined to be a titanosaurian sauropod.
The main contender for the largest sauropod and the longest known vertebrate is Bruhathkayosaurus matleyi known from now disentereated remains which was upto 40 m (130 ft) in length and 110–130 t (240,000–290,000 lb) in weight. [139] With paleontologist Michael Benton, giving Bruhathkayosaurus a length of 45 metres (148 ft). [140]
Most of the largest herbivorous specimens on record were discovered in the 1970s or later, and include the massive titanosaur Argentinosaurus huinculensis, which is the largest dinosaur known from uncontroversial and relatively substantial evidence, estimated to have been 70–80 t (77–88 short tons) and 36 m (118 ft) long.
The UK's biggest ever dinosaur trackway site has been discovered in a quarry in Oxfordshire. About 200 huge footprints, which were made 166 million years ago, criss-cross the limestone floor.
British researchers have unearthed some 200 dinosaur footprints dating back 166 million years in a find believed to be biggest in the United Kingdom. Teams from Oxford and Birmingham Universities ...
Millions of years ago, the dinosaurs that dominated the planet came in all shapes and sizes. The tyrannosaurus was a nearly 40-foot-long apex predator.Shuvuuia, on the other side of the size scale ...
The largest dinosaurs, and the largest animals to ever live on land, were the plant-eating, long-necked Sauropoda. The tallest and heaviest sauropod known from a complete skeleton is a specimen of an immature Giraffatitan discovered in Tanzania between 1907 and 1912, now mounted in the Museum für Naturkunde of Berlin.
Scientists have confirmed the discovery of a new dinosaur species in Australia, one of the largest found in the world, more than a decade after cattle farmers first uncovered bones of the animal.