Fossilised remains of a large sauropod have been discovered on the Isle of Wight. Well, the neck bone of one, anyway. Reckoned to be between 125 – 130 million years old, this would place it in the Jurassic period. So it would be a contemporary of other sauropods such as Brachiosaurus and Apatosaurus, but much bigger, it seems. Going by this vertebra, they believe this lizard was over 20metres in length and weighed in at 40 – 50 tonnes. That’s one big reptile. Makes my tortoises (Triassic period) tame in comparison….
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Every time that they find a new dinosaur, they have to rewrite a textbook.
I can almost hear Steve Irwin saying, “Crikey! She’s a beauty”! ;^)Visit me @ http://pimme.blog-city.com
…As he grabs it by the tail and exclaims “That’ll piss her right off!”