Meet the 122-foot giant that is too large for its own museum gallery.
In short: This massive, unnamed herbivore from the Late Cretaceous period is so enormous that its head pokes out of the American Museum of Natural History. Discover how this 70-ton titan lived and how scientists explain its ability to carry such immense weight.
Unearthed in the Patagonian desert of Argentina, this dinosaur belongs to the titanosaurs, a group of giants. The fossils were recovered by a research team from the Museo Paleontologico Egidio Feruglio, including Diego Pol, who earned his doctorate at the American Museum of Natural History. The creature roamed forest environments roughly 100 to 95 million years ago.
Dr. Mark Norell, the museum's curator of paleontology, highlights this discovery as a hallmark of a modern golden age for the field. The exhibit features a cast of the original bones, offering a rare look at one of the largest dinosaurs ever identified by science.
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