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Biggest Dino yet discovered
May 17, 2014 at 2:08 am
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27441156
Quote:Based on its huge thigh bones, it was 40m (130ft) long and 20m (65ft) tall.
Weighing in at 77 tonnes, it was as heavy as 14 African elephants, and seven tonnes heavier than the previous record holder, Argentinosaurus.
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RE: Biggest Dino yet discovered
May 17, 2014 at 2:12 am
(May 17, 2014 at 2:08 am)max-greece Wrote: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27441156
Quote:Based on its huge thigh bones, it was 40m (130ft) long and 20m (65ft) tall.
Weighing in at 77 tonnes, it was as heavy as 14 African elephants, and seven tonnes heavier than the previous record holder, Argentinosaurus.
Fuck I love this stuff.
That's awesome.
You're not the only one who loves this sort of stuff.
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RE: Biggest Dino yet discovered
May 17, 2014 at 2:31 am
On my FB page now. I love this stuff, too!
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RE: Biggest Dino yet discovered
May 17, 2014 at 2:44 am
I bet the devil put it there to test the creatards 'faith!'
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RE: Biggest Dino yet discovered
May 17, 2014 at 3:19 am
(May 17, 2014 at 2:44 am)Minimalist Wrote: I bet the devil put it there to test the creatards 'faith!'
It's amazing that not one dino has been found with human remains or a saddle. Not even a Fred Flintstone car.
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RE: Biggest Dino yet discovered
May 17, 2014 at 4:01 am
I wonder what they are going to call it?
Fuckmeasaurus?
Youwouldn'twantmeonyourfootasaurus?
Bloodybigasaurus?
Argentinasaurus Rex?
Better options?
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RE: Biggest Dino yet discovered
May 17, 2014 at 7:34 am
What do you call someone who makes too many dinosaur jokes? A dino-bore.
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RE: Biggest Dino yet discovered
May 17, 2014 at 11:50 am
You clearly would ride a titanosaur bareback, Beccs. They didn't have to technology for saddlework back then. Duh.
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RE: Biggest Dino yet discovered
May 17, 2014 at 11:58 am
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2014 at 12:06 pm by Anomalocaris.)
This is hype.
There are a great deal of uncertainty to estimations of body weight of dinosaurs based on skeletons. Based on what we do know, dinosaurs were anatomically and bio mechanically significantly different from any living animal, making extrapolations from elephant somewhat questionable. There are substantial parts as yet we don't know. For example we are not even entirely clear on just how sauropods breath, and consequently how big were their lungs and how barrel Chested they were in life.
We also make the inference that being herbivore, sauropod dinosaurs would be like cows or bisons, and possess a enormous gut and possibly multiple stomachs to ferment indigestible vegetation. I am not sure if there really is incontrovertible evidence of that.
So we can't say for certain this dinosaur weighted 77 tons. We also can't say for certain that some other dinosaurs which we think weighted 70 tons didn't in fact weigh 100.
There were also other fragmentary fossil remains which hinted at physically larger dinosaurs then these.
The upshot is what is the largest dinosaur we know is not a well established, or even in principle an easily establisheble thing. This article is pure hype in its claim that this is the largest. Many other remains also has nearly as strong, or perhaps just as strong, claims to the same title.
