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The Mini Dinosaurs from the Harz Mountains

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-bigger-than-a-baby's-arm dept.

FiReaNGeL writes "When unusually small dinosaur fossils were found in a quarry on the northern edge of the Harz Mountains in 1998, it was initially assumed that these were the remains of a group of young dinosaurs. This was a fallacy, as the Bonn palaeontologist, Dr. Martin Sander, recently discovered. At a maximum estimated weight of one tonne, they were only a fiftieth the weight of their closest relatives, the brachiosaurs, and thus by far the smallest of the giant dinosaurs which have ever been found."

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  1. Re:Small Giants by Lectrik · · Score: 5, Funny
    Heh heh... he said "smallest of the giant dinosaurs"

    's a bit like being the most civilized monkey in the zoo...
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  2. ObUnits by Scarblac · · Score: 3, Funny

    From TFA: "Their cousins, by contrast, were up to 45 metres long and weighed in at 80 tonnes - as much as a small town of over 1,000 inhabitants."

    I don't understand. How many Volkswagen Beetles is that?

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