On July 25, 2019, a guy examines a Sauropod’s femur that was found earlier in the week during an excavation at the palaeontological site of Angeac-Charente, France.
French paleontologists discovered a massive dinosaur’s thigh bone this week at an excavation site in southwestern France where remnants of some of the biggest land animals ever discovered have been unearthed since 2010.
The Angeac-Charente site’s two-meter-long femur is believed to have belonged to a sauropod, a kind of herbivorous dinosaurs with long necks and tails that flourished around 140 million years ago.
Ronan Allain, a paleontologist at the National History Museum of Paris, told Reuters that “this is a huge discovery.” The femur’s quality of preservation in particular astounded me.
These creatures likely weighed 40 to 50 tons.
One of the largest such discoveries in Europe, according to Allain, has been made at a location near the city of Cognac by researchers who have discovered more than 7,500 fos of more than 40 distinct рeсe since 2010.
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