The Patagotitan Mayorum, one of the largest dinosaurs in the world found in Patagonia, arrived at the Natural History Museum in London. the specimen found in Chubut weighed about 70 tons and had 40 meters about the length
The skeleton of what was one of the largest animals in the world is now on display at the Museum of Natural History British. As reported by BBC News, it barely fits in its Waterhouse Gallery, the museum’s largest exhibition space. Even the end of the tail must have been folded around a column.
He Patagotitan It was a dinosaur that lived 100 million years ago in South America. It had a length of approximately 40 meters from nose to tailand could reach a weight of up to 60 or 70 tons.
Although the museum exhibits a representative Skeleton, also has some of the actual fossil bones first discovered in Argentina in 2014. The biggest is a 2.4 m long femur.
The largest specimen would have been found in Neuquén
In 2021, a team of scientists from various universities in Argentina and Spain released the discovery of fossil remains of a dinosaur, and they affirm that it would have been larger than those that had been described so far.
Observed dinosaur bones are 10 to 20 percent larger than those of Patagotitan swimsuitthe dinosaur found in Chubut.
The discovery drew attention not only because of the size of the specimen, which was found in the central region of Neuquénbut was surprised by how well articulated their fossil remains were.
According to Dr. Alejandro Otero, a researcher at the Vertebrate Paleontology Division of the La Plata Museum, he indicated at the time that the first 24 vertebrae of the tail, elements of the pelvic girdle and the pectoral girdle, had been found.
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