Biggest Dino yet discovered

[max-greece]

[The Valkyrie]

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27441156

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.

[SteelCurtain]

On my FB page now. I love this stuff, too!

[Minimalist]

I bet the devil put it there to test the creatards 'faith!'

[The Valkyrie]

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.

[max-greece]

I wonder what they are going to call it?

Fuckmeasaurus?
Youwouldn'twantmeonyourfootasaurus?
Bloodybigasaurus?
Argentinasaurus Rex?

Better options?

[Napoléon]

What do you call someone who makes too many dinosaur jokes? A dino-bore.

[Whateverist]

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.

.. and that's why they want to teach the controversy. Where are those things? Inquiring minds are looking for evidence that what they choose to believe is true.

[SteelCurtain]

You clearly would ride a titanosaur bareback, Beccs. They didn't have to technology for saddlework back then. Duh.

[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.