LISBON: Palaeontologists in Portugal have unearthed the fossilised skeleton of what could be the largest dinosaur ever found in Europe.The remains are thought to be those of a sauropod, a.
Remains of what can be regarded as the largest dinosaur ever discovered in Europe were found in a back garden in Portugal. When the property owner in the city of Pombal found pieces of fossilised bone in the yard and then called scientists from the University of Lisbon, an excavation operation in the area began in 2017.
The vertebrae and ribs of what Spanish and Portuguese palaeontologists believe to be a brachiosaurid sauropod have been discovered at the site earlier this month.
The largest living land animal, and the largest of all dinosaurs, was the sauropod.
A 3 m long coast in particular was brought to light Paleontologists unearthed fossilized bones of a dinosaur in the garden of a house in Portugal in early August. It could be the largest sauropod ever discovered in Europe. "It is one of the largest specimens known in Europe, even worldwide," said paleontologist Elisabete Malafaia, from the University of Lisbon, on Monday. Among all the bones collected, which date from the Jurassic period around 15
A giant dinosaur rib cage believed to have belonged to a fossilized Brachiosaurus Sauropod skeleton was discovered in the backyard of a man in Pombal, Portugal, a team of Portuguese and Spanish researchers said last week.