He was forty feet long and twenty meters high – as much as a seven-story building. He belonged to an unknown species of the family titanosaurid. To calculate its mass, it was necessary to accurately measure the bone.
Among other things, the humerus and femur, because it rested on them the whole weight of the body – translators BBC Dr. Diego Pol of the Paleontological Museum in the city of Trelew in Patagonia .Dinosaur had to weigh 77 tons – as much as fourteen elephants. The bones found in the desert one of the local farmers. Then he took a matter of paleontologists who unearthed a total of 150 bones belonging to seven different specimens.
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