New Dinosaur ‘Dreadnoughtus’ Discovered in Argentina
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iStock/Thinkstock(BUENOS AIRES, Argentina) — Scientists in Argentina discovered a new dinosaur, dubbing the creature Dreadnoughtus schrani.
Dr. Kenneth Lacovara of Philadelphia’s Drexel University led the team that excavated the fossilized bones and calculated that the dinosaur would have weighed more than a Boeing 737 when fully grown — making it “the largest calculable weight of any known land animal.”
“When I first found a piece of that femur, I wasn’t too excited because I assumed it was probably just a fragment, and then we saw the tibia and then we saw the fibula and then 10 vertebrae appeared and then 4 years later, we were still excavating,” Lacovara said.
The dinosaur is thought to have died in a flash flood about 77 million years ago.
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