While researchers have not yet identified the species, the sauropod is already breaking size records.
The remains of what appears to be the largest dinosaur ever discovered in Europe were recently unearthed in Portugal. So far, scientists have excavated a gigantic rib cage belonging to a long-necked sauropod, possibly a brachiosaurid, that lived about 150 million years ago during the latter part of the Jurassic period . While the research team has yet to identify the species, the bones are already breaking records.
"At that time, we found some poorly preserved vertebrae and parts of the ribs," Francisco Ortega, a paleontologist at the National Distance Education University in Madrid and a key member of the excavation team, told Live Science in an email. Since then, the researchers have dug up an unusually intact rib cage, which has allowed them to estimate the dinosaur’s size. By all accounts, it was enormous.
"It is possible to believe that we can be in the presence of a new specimen of this poorly known sauropod," Ortega said,"which is very exciting."
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