A giant dinosaur discovered in Portugal
The skeleton of a 12-metre-high, 25-metre-long sauropod has been discovered in Portugal, in a private garden.
In 2017, a homeowner was in the process of digging a hole in his garden to install an extension when he came across, as it were, a bone! Paleontologists then turned their attention to the find and carried out further excavations, leading to various bones, including a rib of some three meters long.
The bones found corresponded to those of a 150 million years old herbivorous dinosaur. According to the researchers, this could well be the largest sauropod in Europe, if not the world! As Futura-sciences points out, these long-tailed, long-necked specimens populated the Earth during the Middle Jurassic and into the Upper Cretaceous. Sauropods include a number of different species, including the brachiosaurids, corresponding to the bones unearthed by paleontologists.
(MH with AsD - Source: Futura-sciences - Illustration: Pixabay)