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Dinosaur the Size of a Bus Found in Australia


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Wide-Hipped Dinosaur the Size of a Bus Once Trod Across Australia

About 95 million years ago, a bus-size and scaly-skinned sauropod dinosaur with a long tail and even longer neck lumbered across what is now Queensland, Australia, a new study finds. The hulking, 50-foot-long (15 meters) paleo-beast likely weighed up to 22 tons (20 tonnes) and sported hips that didn't quit, at a girth of some 5 feet (1.5 m) across. And the dinosaur likely ate supersize meals, using its large digestive system to extract nutrients from all kinds of plants, even tough ones, said the study's lead researcher Stephen Poropat, a palaeontologist and research associate at the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History in Queensland, Australia.

Read more: Live Science

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Ooooh ... a sexysaurus ... I likey ...

~ :P

oh ... paleo - beast

never mind ...

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