Argentina tops earlier "biggest dinosaur" find

Puertasaurus reuili

can you imagine the amount of vegetation it would take to feed even one of these for a day...?!?! and i thought the brontosaurus was an eating machine...

Argentina, which boasts of having unearthed remains of the largest dinosaur ever found, announced that it has discovered in Patagonia fossils of another "monstrous" one that could potentially beat its kin.

"I want to be very cautious but there is a possibility that this may be the largest dinosaur ever discovered," paleontologist Fernando Novas said on Friday when presenting the findings.

Four vertebrae of the long-necked herbivore Puertasaurus reuili were found in 2001 near Lake Viedma, in the southern province of Santa Cruz, embedded in 70-million-year-old rocks belonging to the Cretaceous period. The animal weighed 80-100 tons and was 35-40 metres long.

The Puertasaurus is "at least as big" as the Argentinosaurus huinculensis, which has so far been considered the largest-ever found dinosaur, Novas said.

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