Sauropods: Not Fat, Just Big Boned

Carved writes: "Reuters via yahoo is reporting the excavation of what might be the largest dinosaur bones ever found- so big they needed helicopters to move the giant vertebrae. They think it makes up the backbone of a large Alamosaurus, which is believed to be the largest land animal ever to exist. Dinosaurs rule."

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Re:Danger of Theft?

[stilwebm]

I can just picture a bunch of young Texans in their oversized duallies (huge pickup trucks) trying to drag the bones out of the ground with a chain.

Get s'more beer, this thing ain't budgin'!

Six inches is HOW long?

[Rogerborg]

• Alamosaurus, which is believed to be the largest land animal ever to exist.

Before we all start whooping and hollering, go and read the article:

• may be the largest dinosaur backbone ever found [My bold]

• Alamosaurus, a long-necked plant-eating creature from 70 to 90 feet long, weighing 30 tons

It's an important find, we often just recreate these things from little more than a pelvis fragment and a couple of toes, but it's not Godzilla. Don't worry, Texans can still claim they've got the biggest chickens to choke:

• Big Bend area was once the home of [...] the largest known flying creature of all time, a pterosaur with a 35-foot wingspan

Danger of Theft?

[Steve S]

They needed a helicopter to lift these things onto the truck, yet cite "theft" as a possible danger to the fossils.

I just found that funny.