Palaeontology

Giant herbivore lived alongside dinosaurs

By T.K. Randall
November 23, 2018 ·  2 comments

This prehistoric plant-eater was larger than anyone had expected. Image Credit: CC BY-SA 4.0 Nobu Tamura This bulky, elephant-sized herbivore, which was unearthed in southern Poland, lived 237 million years ago at a time when the largest plant-eaters on Earth were all thought to be dinosaurs.

A distant cousin of mammals, this enormous creature, which has been named Lisowicia bojani, demonstrates that herbivorous dinosaurs were not alone in achieving huge sizes."After this discovery, it became clear to us that we were dealing with a giant species," palaeontologist Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki from Uppsala University told Gizmodo.

"We think it's one of the most unexpected fossil discoveries from Triassic Europe."

"Who would have ever thought that there's a fossil record of such a giant, elephant-sized mammalian cousin in this part of the world?"


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