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New Dinosaur

Sep 5, 2014#1

GasBandit

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

Sep 5, 2014#2

PatrThom

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

--Patrick

Sep 5, 2014#3

drawn_inward

New dinosaur?

Sep 5, 2014#4

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

Of course, this only serves to remind me how friggin big the Blue whale is.

Sep 5, 2014#5

drawn_inward

While I like the name Dreadnaught, I think there's a better name out there.

Praegrandis?

Sep 5, 2014#6

figmentPez

New Dinosaur? No, nope, no way, we are not replacing @Dave

Sep 5, 2014#7

strawman

drawn_inward said:
Praegrandis?

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.

Sep 5, 2014#8

GasBandit

EATBEAST 2: THE BEASTEATING

Sep 5, 2014#9

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.

My latin is weak - I thought it meant "old and very large".

I can dig the SI names; Petasaurus?

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Sep 5, 2014#10

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.

Sep 5, 2014#11

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.

Dreadnoughtus is 77 million years old.

Sep 6, 2014#12

Hailey Knight

Frank said:
Dreadnoughtus is 77 million years old.

Thanks!

In that case, sauropods only got bigger as time went on. That's great. I'm surprised it took so long to discover, but it might have been only in that environment.

Sep 6, 2014#13

GasBandit

Australian journalist sneaks one in -

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