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Sauropods: Not Fat, Just Big Boned

Posted by timothy on from the my-high-school-principal-still-wins dept.

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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  1. Danger of Theft? by Steve+S · · Score: 3

    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.

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