Looked like the biggest dinosaur. Photo

In Patagonia found the remains of a huge creature.

Scientists officially confirmed that found in Patagonia, the dinosaur epic proportions is the largest land animal in Earth’s history. Imagine a standard pool or the seven elephants facing each other — these were the size of the ancient giants, which was attributed to a new kind Patagotitan mayorum. As for weight, he quite a bit did not reach the weight of a small space probe.

The remains of a dinosaur first discovered by a shepherd, Aurelio Hernandez on Patagonian ranch La’m sure you in 2012. The rancher called out to paleontologists, and after 18 months they pulled out of the ground all the bones — as it turned out, the remains of six young dinosaurs.

All six individuals were recovered from three geological layers: probably the fact that they all died at the lake, where they and other herbivorous lizards come to drink. Perhaps during periods of drought the lake dried up and the dinosaurs died off its coast from thirst. And dinosaurs are scavengers, eating the remains of dead animals, their bones trampled deep into the clay that contributed to the sound.

Fossils include vertebrae and ribs of the dinosaurs, which took to a new kind Patagotitan mayorum. Weighed his representatives, and the average 62-69 tons, and their length from head to tip of tail was more than 35 metres, six of which were in the neck. And it is likely that this is not the limit, because in adulthood, these individuals could reach even larger sizes.

Ancient giants surpassed the length of all known land animals — both extinct and modern. And their weight was greater than the mass of some modifications, “Boeing 737”.

Size comparison: thigh Patagotitan mayorum and member of the research group

“It was probably a massive slow-moving animals. Tyrannosaurs looked like dwarfs compared to these dinosaurs. It’s like comparing the lion and the elephant,” said one researcher Diego Pol.

Reconstruction Patagotitan mayorum

Ancient herbivorous giant Patagotitan mayorum lived during the Mesozoic, about 100 thousand years ago. Most likely, such an extreme gigantism in the course of evolution arose only once. All the huge titanosaurs lived only in the interval 113-83 million years ago in the South of South America. Probably long necks and tails of these dinosaurs helped them to withstand the unusually hot temperature, characteristic of that period.

Reconstruction of the skeleton of P. mayorum at the American Museum of natural history in new York

The finding so impressed the scientists of the National research Council (Argentina) that they gave a skeleton to the American Museum of natural history, where it was exhibited in 2016, when a new kind of haven’t even received a name.

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