Freakin’ Hugeasaurus Rex!
Brazilian and Argentine paleontologists unearthed the skeleton in Patagonia, where the animal lived an estimated 80 million years ago during the late Cretaceous. Dubbed Futalognkosaurus dukei – more on that in a second – the dinosaur was as tall as a four-story building. From nose to tail it was longer than a pair of tractor trailer trucks laid end-to-end – or, if you’re a dinosaur junkie, half again the length of a small brontosaurus.
:eek:
May I nominate that for the most wicked scientific name?
That ranks up there with Amorphophallus titanum.
[QUOTE=Kuboydal]
That ranks up there with Amorphophallus titanum.
Is George Clinton an Argentine Paleontologist now?
[QUOTE=Lamar Mundane]
Is that what the ‘P’ stands for?
Impressive, yeah… but all these giant Argentinian dinos unearthed in the last decade only wish they could compete with the uber-gigntic, 130 year old Amphicoelias, both in size and legend (it was only known from one huge vertebra that nobody can seem to actually locate anymore).
Amphicoelias (/ˌæmfɪˈsiːliəs/, meaning "biconcave", from the Greek ἀμφί, amphi: "on both sides", and κοῖλος, koilos: "hollow, concave") is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur that lived approximately 150 million years ago during the Tithonian (Late Jurassic Period) of what is now Colorado, United States. Amphicoelias was moderately sized at about 18 metres (59 ft) in length and 15 metric tons (17 short tons) in body mass, shorter than its close relative Diplodocus. Its hindlimbs were ver...