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Paleontologists may have found the largest dinosaur of all time - Salon

Paleontologists may have found the largest dinosaur of all time - Salon

Paleontologists may have found the largest dinosaur of all time - Salon
Jan 19, 2021 1 min, 4 secs

Paleontologists in Argentina have discovered bones that they suspect belonged to a dinosaur so large, it would have been the largest land animal to ever live.

Paleontologists confirmed that a pile of bones, discovered in an Argentinian section of Patagonia, belonged to a type of dinosaur known as a sauropod, according to a paper published in the scholarly journal Cretaceous Research.

Alejandro Otero, a paleontologist with Argentina's Museo de La Plata and a co-author of the study reporting the find, told Salon by email that there were a number of physical differences between the new dinosaur and other titanosaurs that lead scholars to believe it is a different and larger species.

Otero also told Salon by email that "the specimen here reported strongly suggests the co-existence of the largest and middle-sized titanosaurs" along with smaller sauropods known as rebbachisaurids "at the beginning of the Late Cretaceous in Neuquén Province." That suggests that natural selection compelled different species to find alternative ways of using their environment in order to coexist, a phenomenon known as "nice partitioning." The new findings in Patagonia have "contributed to a better understanding of the phylogenetic relationships of titanosaurs, revealing the existence of a previously unknown lineage and shedding new light on body mass evolution.".

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