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World's largest dinosaur discovered in Argentina - David Attenborough NatGeo documentaries

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfh-64s5va4

I watched another Attenborough documentary where they found a quarry deposit containing remains of 6 Patagotitan titanosaur sauropod dinosaurs, the largest dinosaurs ever found. There is a cast of one in the American Museum of Natural History in NYC where the skeleton is so long that the skull & part of the neck stick out into the adjacent corridor.
 
I guess they found 6 that did not make it to the boat.
 
JacksinPA said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfh-64s5va4

I watched another Attenborough documentary where they found a quarry deposit containing remains of 6 Patagotitan titanosaur sauropod dinosaurs, the largest dinosaurs ever found. There is a cast of one in the American Museum of Natural History in NYC where the skeleton is so long that the skull & part of the neck stick out into the adjacent corridor.
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This is no surprise to me, to be honest.

Although I have an advantage, my wife's uncle is Jose Bonaparte. And I was lucky enough to meet him in 1984 and spend several hours talking with him over paleontology.

South America when it broke away from Gondwana became a rather unique birthplace for dinosaurs. Not unlike Australia with it's birds and mammals, on South America there evolved creatures that gained a size and other features not found anywhere else. Dinosaurs in North America primarily became duck-bills, and medium in size. In SA, they became giants, and heavily armored.

So finding some even larger than what had been previously discovered is not a surprise to me. I am going to have to watch to see if Jose is mentioned.
 
Oozlefinch said:
This is no surprise to me, to be honest.

Although I have an advantage, my wife's uncle is Jose Bonaparte. And I was lucky enough to meet him in 1984 and spend several hours talking with him over paleontology.

South America when it broke away from Gondwana became a rather unique birthplace for dinosaurs. Not unlike Australia with it's birds and mammals, on South America there evolved creatures that gained a size and other features not found anywhere else. Dinosaurs in North America primarily became duck-bills, and medium in size. In SA, they became giants, and heavily armored.

So finding some even larger than what had been previously discovered is not a surprise to me. I am going to have to watch to see if Jose is mentioned.
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Convincing proof of the shift of tectonic plates: look at maps of S America & Africa. Slide the 2 continents together & they almost precisely fit into each other. That evidence is backed up by the finds of titanosaur skeletons in Argentina & Tanzania.
 
JacksinPA said:
Convincing proof of the shift of tectonic plates: look at maps of S America & Africa. Slide the 2 continents together & they almost precisely fit into each other. That evidence is backed up by the finds of titanosaur skeletons in Argentina & Tanzania.
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Well, Jose actually took it a step further.

Back in the 1970's, he actually used the fossil record to prove that. As a child, he had realized that but there was no way to prove it.

Then early in his career, he was able to link the fossils of turtles from Africa and South America, and prove that they were the same species. Then he shoed how they evolved differently after the 2 continents split up.

Plate tectonics had been a theory even before that, but he was one of the first to give fossil proof to back up that geologic theory.
 
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