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Title: North America's Biggest Dinosaur Revealed
Post by: Tank on December 10, 2011, 03:53:23 PM
North America's Biggest Dinosaur Revealed (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111207132918.htm)

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QuoteScienceDaily (Dec. 7, 2011) — New research from Montana State University's Museum of the Rockies and the State Museum of Pennsylvania has unveiled enormous bones from North America's biggest dinosaur.

In a paper published Dec. 6 in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, MSU researcher Denver W. Fowler and coauthor Robert M. Sullivan from Harrisburg, Pa., describe two gigantic vertebrae and a femur that the team collected in New Mexico from 2003 to 2006. Carrying the vertebrae alone took most of a day and was a "killer" because the paleontologists carried them 1.2 miles through 100-degree heat, Fowler said...

That's one huge creature!
Title: Re: North America's Biggest Dinosaur Revealed
Post by: OldGit on December 10, 2011, 04:54:40 PM
Okay, okay, we know the story - the Murrikins have got the biggest of everything.  Our dinosaurs are much more tasteful, though. ;D
Title: Re: North America's Biggest Dinosaur Revealed
Post by: Sweetdeath on December 11, 2011, 03:39:23 AM
Ruyango xD aw, China <3

Silly America, obsessed with its big things.
Title: Re: North America's Biggest Dinosaur Revealed
Post by: Sandra Craft on December 11, 2011, 03:50:43 AM
What in the world is that standing next to the human figure at the top?  The one that isn't a giant reptile.
Title: Re: North America's Biggest Dinosaur Revealed
Post by: Sweetdeath on December 11, 2011, 04:12:38 AM
I thought it was a robot xD
Title: Re: North America's Biggest Dinosaur Revealed
Post by: Tank on December 11, 2011, 11:04:53 AM
Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on December 11, 2011, 03:50:43 AM
What in the world is that standing next to the human figure at the top?  The one that isn't a giant reptile.

It's the vertebrae they found drawn to scale!
Title: Re: North America's Biggest Dinosaur Revealed
Post by: Sweetdeath on December 12, 2011, 04:30:34 AM
Damn. X_x that's a big Vertabrae!!
Title: Re: North America's Biggest Dinosaur Revealed
Post by: xSilverPhinx on December 12, 2011, 05:02:22 AM
Amazing to think that land dwelling animals can get so big.  :o