'It's like when you put an elephant by a lion.' Legendary Tyrannosaurus rex and other meat-eaters 'look like dwarfs when you put them against one of these giant titanosaurs,' said Diego Pol of the Egidio Feruglio paleontology museum. Scientists think that they died in a floodplain region before being preserved in mud. The Natural History Museum titanosaur skeleton has been based on remains unearthed a decade ago.Ī set of fossilised bones was discovered in Patagonia in 2012, which were thought to belong to six different titanosaur dinosaurs. The group contains the largest terrestrial animals known, some even approaching the size of modern whales. Titanosaur fossils have been found on all continents except Antarctica and include some 40 species. However, the titanosaurs' bodies were stockier and their limbs produced a wider stance than other sauropods. Sauropods were a dinosaur subgroup characterised by their four legs, long neck and tail, small head and herbivorous diet. Titanosaurs were the last great family of sauropod dinosaurs before the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, about 65 million years ago. This will be the first time it will be displayed in Europe, after being loaned by the Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio (MEF) in Argentina. The cast was transported from Buenos Aires to London Heathrow for the 'Titanosaur: Life as the Biggest Dinosaur' exhibition, due to open on March 31. It was also three times the size of the fearsome Tyrannosaurus Rex.
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