Pictures: Scientists discover fossils of one of the world's largest dinosaurs in Argentina

Written By ديانا الحموري on 2014/05/19

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

ArabiaWeather.com - Paleontologists in Argentina have discovered a group of fossils of one of the largest dinosaurs ever found in the world.

Argentine experts traveled to the area on Friday 16 May to present their findings to media representatives and distributed a series of photos of the massive excavations at Chubut, about 260 km from the city of Trelew.

Scientists from the Egidio Ferroglio Museum of Fossils said that preliminary tests on the fossils show that they date back to about 90 million years.

Paleontologists led an exploration team to the Patagonia region after a farm worker said he had found some fossils. They said the area was a huge excavation site and contained at least seven additional groups of remains.

The length of the huge fossils is estimated at about 40 meters from head to tail, and scientists began excavating the site in 2013 with the help of 30 people, and although they did not know exactly which class the fossils belong to, they said that it is an almost complete group of remains of this type of dinosaur. In the world.

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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