Brazilian scientists have announced the discovery of what they say is the largest dinosaur ever found in South America’s biggest country. The director of Rio de Janeiro’s Earth Sciences Museum, Diogenes Campos, said on Wednesday he named the 25-metre-long dinosaur “Austroposeidon magnificus.” It belonged to the Titanosaur group of herbivores that had large bodies, long necks and tails and relatively small skulls, he said. Cretaceous dinosaur footprints uncovered on Western Australian beach Read moreHe said the titanosaur was about six to eight metres tall and lived in what is now Brazil about 70 million years ago. Alexander Kellner, a paleontologist, said Price had so many other specimens to identify that he did not have time to get to Austroposeidon magnificus. Titanosaurs lived during the Cretaceous Period in areas that today are in South America, Africa, Antarctica and Australia.

Source: The Guardian October 07, 2016 01:42 UTC