someone s to blame, he says, but we ll probably never find out who. there s despair here at the damage done, but determination, too, to better protect these waterways and the precious life they contain. jenny hill, bbc news, szczecin. the remains of what could be the largest dinosaur ever discovered in europe are being excavated in a back garden in portugal. the fossilised skeleton of a sauropod was discovered in the central city of pombal in 2017, when a man began building work on his house. sauropods were the biggest of all dinosaurs and the largest known land animals. palaeontologists say the reptile was about 12 metres tall about 39 feet and 25 metres or 82 feet long. well, for more on this i am now joined by dr sally reynolds. she heads the institute for studies of landscape and human evolution at bournemouth university and specialises in
did they live in herds, how do they take care of a young, those questions that palaeontologists will be hoping to answer. how much is currently known about the sauropod? we know quite a lot, we don t know what species it is because we have only been able to uncover some vertebrates and some ribs at this point. in terms of skeletons, that doesn t give you very much information about the species. it is of a similar type of an individual as we have seen with other dinosaurs, we have a brontosaurus and certain of those other very large dinosaur so that people have seen in movies likejurassic park. hopefully, if we find the skull, especially if we find some teeth, the specialists will be able to determine exactly what species it is and it could even be anyone. now it s time for a look at the weather with elizabeth rizzini. hello there. if you ve got outdoor plans
tourist numbers in hong kong are still low, with visitors still needing to enter quarantine and undergo strict testing when they arrive. the operator says they are confident that despite the, the tram will be a popular attraction, especially when the borders are fully reopened. the remains of what could be the largest dinosaur ever discovered in europe are being excavated in a back garden in portugal. the fossilised skeleton of a sauro pod was discovered in the central city of pombal in 2017, when a man began building work on his house. sauro pods were the biggest of all dinosaurs and the largest known land animals. palaeontologists say the reptile was about 12 metres tall about 39 feet and 25 metres or 82 feet long. you can reach me on twitter i m @ lucy e grey
he would have extraordinary confidence in his scientific mind and his intellect and he was just, he was never nervous. i don t think he ever experienced fear or anxiety ofany kind. he could stand up in front of a crowd in an american football stadium and give a talk to 50,000 people without notes. i never saw him use notes, i never saw him prepare a talk. he was always, his stories were clear, his examples were precise. he just seemed to have a different level of communication ability. he really is a one off. i mean, he was a school dropout and coming from parents who were both palaeontologists that must have been a bit of a shock for them but he seemed to know what has what his route in life was going to be?
of a crowd in an american football stadium and give a talk to 50,000 people without notes. i never saw him use notes, i never saw him prepare a talk, but he was always, his stories were clear, his examples were precise. he just seemed to have a different level of communication ability than is common in people. i mean, yeah, he really is a one off. i mean, he was a school dropout and coming from parents who were both palaeontologists that must have been a bit of a shock for them, but he seemed to know what his route in life was going to be then? he did. and he always used to say, well, he was a high school dropout and when he was first hired as a professor at stony brook university, he teased the president that she couldn t really be hiring a high school dropout. but we always felt that, really, he had a tutorial education with his parents worlds leading anthropologists, worlds leading archaeologists most of his parents friends were leading geologists and other environmental scient