A farmer over in Chubut, Argentina made a pretty awesome discovery about three years ago (although it only seems to be coming to light now for some reason) when he stumbled across some fossilised dinosaur remains that ended up belonging to the biggest dinosaur in history.
As you can see from the photo above, the thing was freaking huge and it now officially holds the title of biggest dinosaur in history. It’s estimated that it was 40 metres long, 20 metres tall and weighed a massive 77 tonnes. If you’re having trouble visualising that then it’s 11 times bigger than a tyrannosaurus, which basically makes it fucking huge and definitely deserving of the title it’s been given.
Previously, the biggest dinosaur on record was the Argentinosaurus, which only weighed about 7 tonnes, so you can see how much of a game changer this discovery is in terms of how we view dinosaurs. It also gives you even more of an idea of how big of a motherfucker this new guy is too.
The dinosaur itself is a newly described species of titanosaur (a dinosaur I’ve never heard of either), which is a large herbivorous sauropod that lived in the late Mesozoic period roughly 95 million years ago. It doesn’t actually have a specific name yet as it can’t be given one until the results of lab testing are published in an academic journal sometime in the future.
The nearby Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio have excavated the site and found over 150 dinosaur bones from seven of the creatures so they could be looking into this for a while. Indeed, it seems like they’ve already been investigating it for three years and aren’t anywhere closer to publishing their findings as they’ve only currently excavated about a fifth of the site.
If you’re worried about the name, the scientists have pledged that they’ll come up with a great name for the dinosaur that reflects its size, the region and the farmer who made the discovery. That sounds like a lot of factors to get into one name so we’ll have to see how that goes, although judging by the time-frame they’ve already spent investigating it it doesn’t sound like we’ll see any actually results for another 12 years when they’ve finally finished digging through the site.
You can see a few pictures of the excavation site below:
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