'Biggest dinosaur ever' discovered

[okaawhatever]

This gigantic dinosaur stood 40m long and 20m tall, based on the length of its enormous thigh bones.

Weighing in at 77 tonnes, it was as heavy as 14 African elephants, and seven tonnes heavier than the previous record holder, Argentinosaurus.

Scientists believe it is a new species of titanosaur, enormous herbivores that lived during the Late Cretaceous, the last days of the dinosaurs.

A local farm worker first stumbled on the remains in the desert near La Flecha, about 250km west of Trelew, Patagonia.

Continued at Link w/more pics:
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27441156

[pinboy3niner]

1. And fitting them on the Ark was a real pain. nt

[1000words]

3. That's just bone-headed

[pinboy3niner]

4. I don't Noah where you're coming from with that

[1000words]

7. Sorry, I couldn't patella if you were being humerus.

[pinboy3niner]

11. Yeah, that's always a bone of contention

[1000words]

13. Good to know you were just ribbing me

[pinboy3niner]

14. Give it time, you'll loin

[Aerows]

25. Don't be telling fibulas now.

Let this be a sternum warning!

[Aerows]

26. I always tell myself ulna it when I see it.

Tibia honest, though, it is subjective.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

20. In that vein,...

I picture a scene in pre-history where the diggers of a well scatter out of the pit and solemn Elders are summoned. They look down and order all digging be stopped out of fear they are close to the world of monsters.

[geomon666]

2. I think my dog buried that.

Thanks for finding it.

[lob1]

5. Obviously it's a PR stunt for the new Godzilla movie.

If you look close, you can see bits of Tokyo stuck between its toes.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. We went today, nope, not Tokyo

but Vegas...

We were laughing, how often do you see Honolulu, Las Vegas and San Fran destroyed in a movie? And in this case, it was in the same movie!

[pinboy3niner]

8. I'd file a GIANT lawsuit against the studio for that

[mia]

9. Beautiful. Awesome.

Love the photo.

[Arugula Latte]

10. Hah! You failed God's test by believing this, sinners!

Enjoy the burning flames for all eternity!

[Rex]

12. Godzillasaurus?

Now that is one big buffalo wing!

[pinboy3niner]

16. Godzillanado!

Coming soon to SyFy.

[Humanist_Activist]

19. Already taken, not surprisingly: Gojirasaurus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gojirasaurus

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. COOL!!!

The whole thing is there!!!

[Cha]

17. Wow! thank you, okaaa!

[alfredo]

18. too cool

[defacto7]

21. No..

I think another much larger dino ate this one and threw these bones over its shoulder.

[smallcat88]

22. I thought

the biggest dinosaur ever was the GOP. Don't tell them! It's one more 'bone' in their 6000 year old Earth story. (Oh, I forgot. They think our ancestors rode those things like horses. )

[okaawhatever]

23. +100 nt

[winstars]

24. Riding them was the easy part, it was the getting up on top of 'em which sucked...

You just had to wait on a cliff for one to walk by and then boom, jump right on.

Apparently it was not that easy at first but...

[Jackpine Radical]

27. First you catch a pterodactyl…

[countryjake]

28. This is too cool...Patagonia actually means "big foot"...

supposedly because the people that Magellan found there were considered giants, compared to Europeans.

I began wondering about this when they discovered that other huge species, the Argentino dinosaur, down there. How very appropriate that the biggest animal ever to walk the earth is found in an area called Big Foot. Makes me intrigued about what may lie further down, under the disappearing ice of Antarctica. A Jules Verne mystery.

I love that picture! Thanks for sharing, okaawhatever!