09 Sep Big

Posted at 22:26h in That's life by

Exactly how big was that Dreadnoughtus schrani, the titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur discovered recently in the Argentinian portion of Patagonia? The BBC offers this handy chart:

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The BBC story is here. The first scientific paper documenting the massive discovery is in the journal Nature’s Scientific Reports.

H/T: Flowing data.