New Dinosaur

GasBandit

GasBandit

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Smart people in Argentina have discovered fossils for a new dinosaur and other smart people have pegged it at 65 tons (59000 kg) and growing. This makes it the largest terrestrial animal to have ever lived, weighing significantly more than a full-size passenger jet. They have determined this specimen had a 37-foot (12m) neck and probably rarely did anything but eat. Theoretically, if it ever fell over on its side, it would die.


That picture is of a FREAKING TOE!!
via Washington Post
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Considering how often we find bigger and bigger and bigger dinosaurs, it almost seems like Mother Nature is trolling us.

--Patrick
 
Terrik

Terrik

GasBandit said:

Smart people in Argentina have discovered fossils for a new dinosaur and other smart people have pegged it at 65 tons (59000 kg) and growing. This makes it the largest terrestrial animal to have ever lived, weighing significantly more than a full-size passenger jet. They have determined this specimen had a 37-foot (12m) neck and probably rarely did anything but eat. Theoretically, if it ever fell over on its side, it would die.


That picture is of a FREAKING TOE!!
via Washington Post
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Of course, this only serves to remind me how friggin big the Blue whale is.
 
strawman

strawman

drawn_inward said:
Praegrandis?
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Isn't that like naming something "larger"? Eventually you find something bigger, and have to use "even larger than larger" or "largest" if you're foolish, because ultimately you'll yet again be surprised.

At least the people who went for megaladon have the SI system to back them up, the next bigger prehistoric shark can be the gigaladan, then the teraladan, and so forth.
 
drawn_inward

drawn_inward

stienman said:
Isn't that like naming something "larger"? Eventually you find something bigger, and have to use "even larger than larger" or "largest" if you're foolish, because ultimately you'll yet again be surprised.

At least the people who went for megaladon have the SI system to back them up, the next bigger prehistoric shark can be the gigaladan, then the teraladan, and so forth.
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My latin is weak - I thought it meant "old and very large".

I can dig the SI names; Petasaurus?

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Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Any word on when it lived in the dinosaur timeline? I'd be curious if it pre-dated or came after those other large sauropods.

Damn, diplodocus was the focus of one Walking With Dinosaurs episode and seemed enormous, yet nowhere near the size of some others. What an amazing time on this planet.
 
Frank

Frank

Zero Esc said:
Any word on when it lived in the dinosaur timeline? I'd be curious if it pre-dated or came after those other large sauropods.

Damn, diplodocus was the focus of one Walking With Dinosaurs episode and seemed enormous, yet nowhere near the size of some others. What an amazing time on this planet.
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Dreadnoughtus is 77 million years old.
 
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