Paleontologists have been running in a Portuguese garden to dig up the remains of what could be the largest dinosaur ever discovered in Europe, researchers at the University of Lisbon said.
The fossilized fragments of the dinosaur were first discovered in 2017 through a landowner at the structure work of the town of Pombal in central Portugal.
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Earlier this month, Spanish and Portuguese paleontologists worked at the site to unearth what would be a dinosaur about 25 meters (82 feet) long and living about 145 million years ago, the branch of the university’s College of Sciences said.
The skeleton belonged to a sauropod, an organization of four-legged herbivorous dinosaur species with long necks and tails, the researchers said. (Reporting via Thomas Holdstock, editing via Deepa Babington)
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