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Photos: One of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs Discovered

By Megan Gannon, News Editor | May 19, 2014 01:36pm ET
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Giant Discovery

Giant Discovery

Credit: Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio

In southern Argentina, scientists discovered the remains of seven adult dinosaurs that lived 95 million years ago. The huge beasts belong to a family known as the titanosaurs. They may be the biggest dinosaurs to have ever roamed Earth.

Huge beast

Huge beast

Credit: Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio

The newfound dinosaur would have towered over carnivores like beasts in the Tyrannotitan genus, as well as giraffes and humans, as this diagram shows.

Heavy Duty Job

Heavy Duty Job

Credit: Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio

Using jackhammers, shovels and even bulldozers, researchers from the Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio in Argentina's Patagonia region removed the fossils from a site in the center of the Chubut province, about 160 (260 kilometers) from the city of Trelew.

Dinosaur Bone

Dinosaur Bone

Credit: Jose Maria Farfaglia

The sauropod's femur next to researcher Pablo Puerta.

One of the Biggest

One of the Biggest

Credit: Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio

The excavators estimate that the four-legged creature would have stretched stretched 131 feet (40 meters) in length and weighed 80 tons (73 tonnes).

Discoverers

Discoverers

Credit: Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio

Researchers Pablo Puerta and José Luis Carballido with their discovery.

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Megan has been writing for Live Science and Space.com since 2012. Her interests range from archaeology to space exploration, and she has a bachelor's degree in English and art history from New York University. Megan spent two years as a reporter on the national desk at NewsCore. She has watched dinosaur auctions, witnessed rocket launches, licked ancient pottery sherds in Cyprus and flown in zero gravity. Follow her on Twitter and Google+.

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Giant Discovery

Credit: Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio

In southern Argentina, scientists discovered the remains of seven adult dinosaurs that lived 95 million years ago. The huge beasts belong to a family known as the titanosaurs. They may be the biggest dinosaurs to have ever roamed Earth.

Huge beast

Credit: Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio

The newfound dinosaur would have towered over carnivores like beasts in the Tyrannotitan genus, as well as giraffes and humans, as this diagram shows.

Heavy Duty Job

Credit: Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio

Using jackhammers, shovels and even bulldozers, researchers from the Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio in Argentina's Patagonia region removed the fossils from a site in the center of the Chubut province, about 160 (260 kilometers) from the city of Trelew.

Dinosaur Bone

Credit: Jose Maria Farfaglia

The sauropod's femur next to researcher Pablo Puerta.

One of the Biggest

Credit: Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio

The excavators estimate that the four-legged creature would have stretched stretched 131 feet (40 meters) in length and weighed 80 tons (73 tonnes).

Discoverers

Credit: Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio

Researchers Pablo Puerta and José Luis Carballido with their discovery.

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